Leo Rosten Quotes

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

We prefer death, martyrdom, and the graveyards of martyrs than to enjoy the guarantees and protection of America

Martyrs win by losing.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.

Christ's followers cannot expect better treatment in the world than their Master had.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

Suffering saints are living seed.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

I am one of the crucified dead.