Flannery O'Connor Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

I want to be a martyr.

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

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

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.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

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

The more people who die for our cause, the stronger we shall become.

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.

Martyrs win by losing.

Mother of my son, be hopeful and patient. We will meet in heaven. I will die for my nation to live. I will be alive in heaven. Just one push on the trigger and I’m over, Thus disfiguring the face of the enemies. May the faces of those who don’t fear God be disfigured, The faces of those who don’t defend Him.

I wish to be a martyr ... God willing, I will have this through you.

I die most willingly. And with God’s grace, I shall give others the good example not to fear death. I do forgive who had a hand ... in my death and my innocent blood. As for my religion, ‘tis glorious for all my friends that I should die for it.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.

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.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

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

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.