Muqtada Al-Sader Quotes

I will continue to defend Najaf as it is the holiest place. I will remain in the city until the last drop of my blood has been spilled.

Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side.

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

The most important part of the daily ministration was the service performed in behalf of individuals. ... By his own hand the animal was then slain, and the blood was carried by the priest into the holy place and sprinkled before the veil, behind which was the ark containing the law that the sinner had transgressed. By this ceremony the sin was, through the blood, transferred in figure to the sanctuary

Vrndavana is one of the holiest cities in India. Everyone, everywhere, chants Hare Krishna. It was my most fantastic experience.

The blood of Christians is seed.

The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.

I wouldn't have known anything about Catholicism if I hadn't been dating Gert. In those days, Catholics were much less ecumenical than they are today. Gert was always of the mind that she wouldn't go to another church except the Catholic Church. So when I would date her in New York City and later when we went to Oxford before we got married we always went to the Catholic church.

This is a good day to die. Follow me!

If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.'

Freedom isn't free at all, that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.

I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I’ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and I’ll...I don’t know. Donate Adrian’s money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one.

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.

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

Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were.

When our minds really catch hold of the significance of Jesus' atonement, the world's hold on us loosens.

Root of a tree, fruit of a vine, let me pass by this blood of mine.

What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed.