Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

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.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

It is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

It is truer to say that martyrs make faith than that faith makes martyrs.

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

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

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