Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

i will follow it, though i know so well now the deep wounds i might find. for as long as i believe that i am walking the true road, if i am slain, then i die in the knowledge that for a brief time, at least, i was part of somethin bigger. this road has perils and i will surely die on it,but, i am not afraid to die.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

We are not interested in our own personal security. On the contrary, each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah. The most honorable death is to be killed.

Those prepared to die for the truth, as a rule make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them.

I think I have fallen in love and I believe the woman in question, though she has not said so, returns my feelings. How can I be sure when she has said nothing? Is this youthful vanity? I wish in some ways that it were. But I am so convinced that I barely need question myself. This conviction brings me no joy.[…]I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive.

The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

To lay down one's life for the truth.

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.

If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

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