Sentences with phrase «living martyrs»

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.

Pius VII, who resisted Napoleon, who had imprisoned him, and whom Catholics therefore venerated as a living martyr, was the immediate predecessor of Leo XII.

But the adulation that came Seeger's way in recent decades had less to do with his mastery of the five - string banjo and his song - writing than with his status in certain circles as a living martyr: the man who stiffed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), found himself blacklisted, and was reduced to performing on college campuses for a while.

for especially in our present - day context, in order to stand up against injustice, oppression and so on, one has to be prepared to be a living martyr, working for and with the people for the upliftment and betterment against all evil forces.

Sean Penn won the Best Actor Oscar for playing real - life martyr Harvey Milk.

Back home in Tehran, the prodigal son is both hailed as a living martyr to the cause of Ayatollah Khomeini's Revolution and confined as a dangerous madman.

Not exact matches

The official Instagram account for Italian museums is sharing art by women of all walks of life, as «saints and prostitutes, goddesses and commoners, intellectuals and artists, actresses and martyrs, writers and poets, mothers, Madonnas and revolutionaries.»

The whole purpose of Christ's life wa to die a martyr for the sins of the world.

I can understand people wanting proof of bin Laden's death, but I think his followers who will portray him as a martyr will be proof that bin Laden lives no longer.

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...!

We recently spoke with author Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy; Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery) about his new book Miracles: What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life and what inspired him to explore the idea of supernatural phenomenon in an increasingly cynical world.

In addition to painting an engaging picture of the saint who, in all his human frailty, followed Christ's example and died a martyr to charity, De Volder systematically addresses the debates over Damien's life and spirit.

There there are the lives of the martyrs and the confessors of the faith.

Emeritus, one of the martyrs, answered «We can not live without Sunday».

Yet in his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, John Henry Newman insists on the necessity of individual experience and weakness of theoretical knowledge in forming religion and morality: «many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a syllogism.»

So someone who dies while fighting actively for justice and righteousness of a community or for a group of people has to be considered a real martyr today Those who lay down their lives for those values of the kingdom such as truth, justice, love of God and love to the poor can be considered as martyrs.

For Mark's interpretation of the life of Jesus as the career of the heavenly Son of Man, walking about Galilee incognito, dying and rising again, is the theology of a martyr church; and like all vital theology it is in closest relation to the daily life of those who thought it and believed it.

The martyrs, along with the saints, then provide models of what it means to live in the shadow of the world to come.

We could have quoted St Irenaeus — who is indeed a saint, martyr and great teacher of the Church — at much greater length to exactly the same effect, but the succinctness of Tertullain's style serves well to express the thought no matter that the man unfortunately left the communion of the Church at the end of his life.

As mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughters.

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.

We learn that the word «martyr» means «witness» and that «apostle» means «one who is sent» and then grasp what this really meant in the lives of the Apostles, and indeed what it means today: «Faith and love in Jesus will issue forth in ministry.

A martyr is someone who lives with a saint.

Christ's life and sacrifice with which the Church started, its long history marred by failures but still contributing immeasurably to mankind's welfare, its prophets, saints, and martyrs — for all of this I am unpayably in debt.

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.

But is the honorific «martyr» adequate to this unwilled loss of life?

He is no Shelleyesque art - martyr whose task is to fling himself upon the thorns of life and bleed.

A martyr is a victim - witness who gives life for the just cause of others.

And so, Augustine points «away from the current popular ideology of the triumph of the martyrs to the smaller pains and triumphs of daily life.»

«Thus I hang upon the boughs of life, knowing that the inevitable dragon of death is waiting ready to tear me, and I can not comprehend why I am thus made a martyr.

Will we find a home in our midst for leaders of faith movements — the Peter Cartwrights and Frances Willards of the 21st century — who inspire us by living out the two greatest moral lessons of life: «to hear» (which can produce «martyrs») and «to dare» (which can produce «heroes»)?

If he martyrs himself, he loses the only life he'll ever have.

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

When the early church came to grips with the problem presented by the extraordinary career and the tragic fate of its Founder, it turned for elucidation to these passages of Isaiah, which speak of a life of service and a martyr's death.

Bruno, it is true, lost his life in the conflict, but at a time when thousands were martyred or killed in religious wars for either the Catholic or Protestant cause, this was negligible in comparison.

Yes, for all you Muslim lovers out there, for all you Islamists that would die for your religion, for all you weak lillly livered Muslims that flee your own country to live in ours and swear to its destruction, for all you hipocrites that claim to be in a religion of tolerance and peace but live by your actions of murder and unspeakable horrors, you Iranians, you Afghans, you Pakistanis, you Iragis, you misfits and abhorents of any god, this story of a simple Christian, who is now denied his life because of stupid and educaied cowards in Iran, cowards and murderers who covet children and lust hiding behind a demonic religion, let this man be your true martyr because you are not human and can not touch him.

Indeed, Pope Francis's action is particularly welcome this year, the centennial of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, in which 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, including many Christian martyrs, lost their lives.

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.

As early as the second century, Christians gathered for worship at the tombs of the martyrs, celebrating the power of God's grace in the lives of these faithful men and women.

But we must not forget that biblically, God's witness is the martyr (Greek martyros), who pays the price of this word he has spoken with his blood and life.

Since the spiritual entity or soul of a man was thought to survive death anyway and go to live in another world, the vindication of the martyr was amply provided for.

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.

Then they sought assurance that those sinners who seem to go through life without ever suffering at all for their misdeeds would eventually receive their due punishment, and that those, on the other hand, who had been martyred unjustly, would be given the opportunity to present their case before a higher court; these interests led to the second and third divisions.

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

It could be argued that all such ideas were placed in his mouth by those who came later, but there was plenty in Jesus» Hebraic tradition to give him an understanding of himself as a suffering messiah whose death would bring the healing of the world: Isaiah's suffering servant, Maccabean martyr theology, Moses» offer to give his life if God would spare his people.

These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious life and thought as a result of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment of his life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to life in heaven where death has no more dominion over him.»

The infinite horizon of being is hardly likely to inspire a martyr to lay down his life.

He was writing, not for a group within a group, the Palestinian church living on under the shadow of the Jewish synagogue and a part, though a somewhat segregated part, of Jewish society, observing its own peculiar Halakak; Mark was writing for a martyr church in the world's metropolis, under the darkening shadow of a tyrant's throne and in the midst of a corrupt society of which the church could not possibly form a part.

Great saints and martyrs showed true love for their closest relatives by putting eternal life with Christ first.

Recall the opening words of the First Epistle of John: «We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life» this life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it, and declare to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us...» First John states the primal truth that Christian faith rests on witness to what has happened in history, hence the honored place of the martyrs (witnesses) in Christian memory.