Sentences with phrase «martyr said»

In the middle of the second century, Justin Martyr said that he would accept those who continued to observe the Torah into Christian fellowship, provided they did not seek to persuade gentile Christians that they too had to follow the Mosaic Law.

A Gospel of wealth proclaims a Jesus who will give us any greedy thing we want if only we ask for it with enough confidence; a Gospel of cool sophistication proclaims a «historical» Jesus who might be anyone but who the saints and martyrs say he is.

Certainly, when Paul saw how the Christian Stephen became a martyr saying forgive them (including Saul or Paul) what they do, he was deeply touched.

Martyr says that the presence of unified global practice groups, which operate with one single partner in charge managing the entire network, means that it is «no different to how you would run a single firm.»

«We'd never do an alliance again — they just don't work,» the firm's chief executive Peter Martyr says.

«We believe there will be around 20 global firms doing the sort of work we do and aspire to do,» Martyr says now.

Not exact matches

«We had a pen they didn't know about and we were taking little scraps of paper and trying to hand out notes to anyone and everyone that wasn't one of the guards or commanders involved in killing Martyr,» Coleman said, referring to their aborted daughter.

FBI director James Comey is akin to a martyr, says the founder of the world's largest hedge fund, Ray Dalio.

«I thought he would recover from his injury, I didn't expect his death, but God has chosen him as a martyr, thank God,» she said, sitting on the ground as mourners came to the house to pay their respects.

Justin Martyr is said to have quoted from some part of the Gospel of John.

REVELATION CHAPTER SIX And he open the fifth seal, and I saw under the altar the souls of those who were slain for the word of GOD and for the testimony they held and they cried out with a loud voice, how long O LORD holy and true do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth and white robes were given unto them and it was said unto them that they should rest a little season until their fellow servant and their brethren should be slain as they were should be fulfilled.Under racial profiling many BLACK AMERICANS were arrested and were either martyred within the prison system or were deported to AFRICA, where many of them were martyred there and were buried in mass graves in both the SUDAN and in the CONGO.

The article says on 6 credible martyrs, then states Nero lighted his garden with Christians (I believe more than six died there, not counting the others whom he blamed for burning down Rome) Then we have 11 apostles who were martyred in the Roman empire (more than six there also).

I can't believe Prof. Moss dares to say there are only 6 reliable accounts of Christian martyrs, because the Romans kept good records.

The blood of Christian martyrs such as Perpetua became «the seed of the church,» said third - century church leader Tertullian.

Moss says ancient stories of church persecution have created a contemporary cult of bogus Christian martyrs.

Then he also started receiving regular communications from God telling him to kill pagens, smite unbeilevers, take no prisoners, beat your wife if she steps out of line, be a martyr by fighting for Allah and receive 72 virgins in a beautiful garden, and my favorite... Allah said that Muhammed alone could have access to any woman he desired except wives of other Muslims — slave girls, prisoners, widows, NIECES, daughters, you name it, all fair game for the Prophet of Allah.

The good reverend says Christians don't have a martyr complex, and then goes on about how Christians are persecuted.

If, say, a bishop wanted to denounce a rivals» theology, he spun a story in which a martyr denounced the same doctrine with his last breath, Moss says.

The article did NOT say that there were no martyrs at all, just that there were not as many as you would like... And to even TRY an equate Christianity in America as the kind of persecutions early Christians experienced makes you look quite childish and hysterical.

Towns competed with one another to draw rich pilgrims seeking martyr memorabilia, Moss says.

the sheikh is one of the new faces to world religion, they willfully attempt at being a martyr by saying things that the rest of world agrees with but the culture that bore the said creature doesn't!!

However, would you say that, each one of the 11 martyred men, who really had stolen the body of Jesus in the first place, would be willing to die for a belief they themselves knew to be false?

I'd have so many crude words to say for the coward but I think he'd just think ALL of them as personal attacks and he'd act as if he's being martyred.

Reminds me of what a college friend of mine, also named Linda, said 40 years ago and it's stuck with me all that time: «Manipulators and martyrs go together in matched pairs.»

Mr Batten said:» [Islam] glorifies death - they believe in propagating their religion by martyring themselves.

Well, as the (supposedly) great Christian theologian / martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer said «the god who is with us, is the god who forsakes us», (Letters and Paper form Prison).

Speaking from his studio window overlooking St Peter's Square, the pontiff said: «May the Lord welcome these courageous witnesses, these martyrs, in his peace and convert the hearts of the violent ones.»

Of the terrorists he says, «We hope that they are the first martyrs in Islam's battle in this era against the new crusade and Jewish campaign led by the big crusader Bush under the flag of the cross.»

There's no denying that the early Christian apologists (Justin Martyr and others) made up that whacky «diabolical mimicry» notion — saying the the devil caused what looks like plagiarism in reverse; so it's pretty obvious those old Xtians were trying to explain away something that would normally look ridiculous.

When someone else says that all infidels must die, that the martyrs are blessed, and employ the Future Fail Fallacy, they believe that the extermination of unbelievers is historically inevitable and even willed.

Such language is employed in the prophetic description of the Servant of the Lord who died for others; and similarly the Jewish martyrs who suffered in the time of the Maccabees were said to have offered themselves as a sacrifice for the nation.

Martyrs, near - martyrs, risk - takers and sufferers command our attention when they say they have seen the resurrected Lord, or led people on exodus or through exile, or been spit back into life by the great fish of illness.

He said the pope described both prisoners as «women martyrs: marvellous examples for a civilization that is so afraid of pain».

So we find repeated warnings like the following which Justin Martyr (c. 100 - c. 165) an early Christian apologist, delivered to Trypho, «For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who... say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians... But I and others, who are right - minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned and enlarged.»

The martyr proves nothing, we say, but a truth which is not strong enough to lead a man to sacrifice lacks proof.

Saint Justin Martyr (103 — 165 A.D.) said, «All truth is ours.»

He interpreted the martyrs as saying, «Let us not fear him who thinks he kills;... After this our passion, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob shall receive us, and all our forefathers shall praise us.

English history has seen all too literal an application of this hard saying in the sufferings of the Catholic martyrs of the Reformation period.

What those officials did not say is that there are two Islamic burial traditions: one for ordinary Muslims and another for martyrs.

Such statements are understandable in, say, an Anabaptist «church of the martyrs.»

At an interfaith memorial service for the martyred journalist Daniel Pearl, Imam Rauf said, «If to be a Jew means to say with all one's heart, mind, and soul: Shma «Yisrael, Adonai Elohenu Adonai Ehad; Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One, not only today I am a Jew, I have always been one.

When Francis declared Mr Romero a martyr, officials said the decree had confirmed the acceptance of a new understanding that martyrs can be killed, even by churchgoing Catholics, out of hatred for their Gospel - inspired work in favour of the poor and disenfranchised.

It is said that the fire, «forming a sort of arch like a ship's sail billowing in the wind, made a wall around the body of the martyr, which was in the midst, or like gold and silver burning in furnace» (15:2).

Socrates drinking the hemlock, Christ on his cross, Hugh Latimer burned at the stake, Lincoln martyred when he was profoundly needed — such events, to say nothing of commoner experience, make it impossible for us to say that all suffering is penalty for corresponding sin.

Whoever not only says, but feels, «God's will be done,» is mailed against every weakness; and the whole historic array of martyrs, missionaries, and religious reformers is there to prove the tranquil - mindedness, under naturally agitating or distressing circumstances, which self - surrender brings.

These numbers deserve more scrutiny than can be offered here, but it should be noted that the Encyclopedia treats every victim of Stalin as a Christian martyr and says there were 1 million «Jewish Christian» martyrs in the Holocaust.

The lovers of mankind are often its martyrs; because, as Oscar Wilde said, Jesus was a lover for whom the world was too small, he had to die.

More than any other religious group, they're hearing the horror stories,» said Cashin, the CIU professor, who has seen three of his friends and colleagues martyred as they attempted to bring the gospel to Muslim - majority nations.

A bishop (long dead) who fancied himself as something of a historian used to say that it was the religious orders which were the first to capitulate at the time of the Henrician Reformation in England, the Carthusian martyrs being the outstanding exception which proved the rule.

However, Ineffabilis Deus says: «All our hope do we repose in the most Blessed Virgin» in the all fair and immaculate one who has crushed the poisonous head of the most cruel serpent and brought salvation to the world: in her who is the glory of the prophets and apostles, the honor of the martyrs, the crown and joy of all the saints; in her who, with her only - begotten Son, is the most powerful Mediatrix and Conciliatrix in the whole world; in her who is the most excellent glory, ornament, impregnable stronghold of the holy Church; in her who has destroyed all heresies and snatched the faithful people and nations from all kinds of direst calamities; in her do we hope who has delivered us from so many threatening dangers.»