Sentences with phrase «became martyrs»

Thus a new race of martyrs was born because the Church was too strong or too weak to allow that it had faults, although this aspect was highlighted in abundance by some who became martyrs and met with a violent death.

Persons became martyrs because they had a concern for human beings.

Many became martyrs because of their new faith.

Do you assume these Christians became martyrs for the sake of a delusion?»

Some gentile Christians, confronted with persecution and possible death, became martyrs; others weakened and left the faith.

Judas was not to become a martyr because of the way the apostles wrote about him in the Gospel - they saw through the eyes of men, and Judas was unable to redeem himself before he died a natural death, dying instead loathed, hated & driven to suicide for his deed against the Son of God, Jesus, whom he had Loved so much.

All you religouis retrds who think these topics are important, do yourself a favor and become a martyr.

I am unable to be a full Christian who could become a martyr... However, I do try and touch the cross once in a while when the spirit reminds me.

I mean how would a person become a martyr if they were not involved in a struggle.

Some scholars rush to point out that this meaning was a «later development,» that Jesus did not intend that all his witnesses should become martyrs in the technical sense.

But that a man can become a martyr, if he ought to be a witness to the end, can not be derived from a purely juridical reflection, for in a trial it is not the witness whose life is at stake but the accused.

A man becomes a martyr because he is first a witness.

Most Muslims will not have the «opportunity» to become a martyr in this war between Islam and the rest of the world and make no mistake every true Muslim must be involved in making America (or the nation where he lives) a Muslim nation.

He becomes a martyr.

Become a martyr by choking on your own puke.

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.

In the process of becoming martyrs, they had to contend with indifferent faithful and the hostile clergy.

Whole peoples become martyrs: Jews, Gypsies, the Cambodians, the Vietnamese, the tribals, the Dalits in India and women everywhere.

John Thomson, the fine young goalkeeper who became a martyr when he was accidentally and fatally injured in a collision with a Rangers forward, is credited with coming in at half time in one match and complaining that an opponent had called him «a papist bastard.»

It became a cautionary tale for me, and others, not to become a martyr or to try to do everything perfectly all by yourself.

Too many parents become martyrs for the kids.

In another video, he hinted that he would become a martyr akin to Jesus Christ, musings that echo the grander fantasies of Klebold and Harris.

At the same time, their religious beliefs motivated them to become martyrs for their cause.

As for becoming a martyr, it would be easy to say she had a choice, and she chose to pursue becoming a suicide bomber.

Become a martyr, and raise lots of money.

Will they become martyrs, patriots, or villains?

On being fired Hansen would become a martyr for freedom of expression, aided by the media, no doubt.

The «jihadist» analogy does not even work, SteveM and Lamphier are accusing others of embarking on a holy war through violence and murder, to become martyrs?

Justice Molloy cited evidence that during a television interview in February 2004, Abdullah Khadr had said «he dreams himself of becoming a martyr for Islam, expressed his admiration for the terrorists who crashed into the World Trade Buildings on September 11, 2001 and referred to Osama Bin Laden as a «saint»».

Not exact matches

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

This way, he wasn't put on trial, housed in an American prison paid for by taxpayers, fed our food or given the opportunity to defend his indefensible actions and then become a living martyr for his supporters.

Seems to be the beginning of the end for Foreign troops in Afghanistan since now it is becoming more like a Holy war were every one there will be glad to give his life as a martyr...!

By the second century, Roman soldiers were bringing their new faith to Britain, and in the middle of the third century St. Alban became Britain's first known Christian martyr, but we don't know much more about who these Christians were, and it is here that Malcolm Lambert begins in Pagans and Christians: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede, producing a captivating narrative by squeezing what he can» but no more» from archeological evidence (mostly from burial sites) and the limited historical record.

I have stood at the sink and confessed it to Mama: It's a Messy Circus Cycle, passive Mud Swallowing, blaming Mud Slinging, martyred Mud Running, and the circus becomes my circus and the cycle becomes my own kinda painful crazy.

Then, when you started to realize your defense wasn't holding up, you became a victim, persecuted, a martyr.

For a year I shall serve purely as a deacon, an office set up by the first apostles to serve the community, as recounted in chapter 6 of the Acts of the Apostles; read on and you'll learn how the first deacon, Stephen, quickly also became the first Christian martyr.

Any way as it seems this will be the beginning of the end for Foreign troops in Afghanistan since now it is becoming more like a Holy War were every one there will be glad to give his life and die as a martyr.

Instead, their movement became a kind of martyr.

And in these days when the sorrows of life appear in clearer outline against the glow of Christmas cheer, this celebration of the unwilling martyrs can become a permission for grief for those intimately acquainted with loss.

I do not know how we North American, well - to - do Christians will be able to give adequate expression to the martyr witness that is becoming the dominant voice in the church as a whole.

Whereas in the Didache the Eucharist was a thankoffering for the blessings of creation and redemption, Justin Martyr thought that the bread and wine were consecrated through the repetition of Jesus» words and thereby became the body and blood of Christ.

He went to Rome in search of knowledge and became a pupil of Justin Martyr.

Later, he was among the first to see the menace of National Socialism in Germany, tirelessly spoke for those persecuted there when this was an unfashionable and awkward cause, and became a close friend of the martyred Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

They were given the courage to shoulder their own crosses and become witnesses or martyrs, and new life rose within them.

They were educated at convent schools, could rise to become prioresses or abbesses of great houses and were numbered amongst the scholars, Saints, mystics and martyrs of the church.

Since, in Christianity, resurrection had become the hope of all Christians, the Apocalypse singles out the martyrs for special honor by speaking of two resurrections.

When the test of conviction becomes the price of life, the witness changes his name; he is called a martyr.

That old Church in its day became a corpse... its priests were cast out or martyred.

Overnight Simmons became a nationally known martyr.

«When Christians are isolated and denied clean drinking water and medical care because they are Christians and refuse to become Muslims --[and thus] they perish quicker than others — are they martyrs?