Sentences with phrase «martyr for»

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»».

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

After working on Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor — Martyr for 3 years already, a few weeks won't harm anyone and whilst it's always disappointing to see a delay, it's best to admit that more time is needed.

Frances had been a martyr for many years to gout, a cruel and painful disease that caused various joints on her body — her fingers, her toes, her elbows, her knees — to swell painfully.

Jaffar's call to adventure in defense of Islam was particularly popular with the alienated young men from Java's impoverished tobacco - and coffee - farming belts, and delicious paranoia made the glory of dying shahid — a martyr for Islam — all the sweeter.

They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I could do if I was living.

I want a car that gets good gas mileage, not to martyr myself for a cause.

Determined to send Oscar to a private school that won't martyr him for his quirks, Rose decides to follow up on an suggestion made by her boyfriend Mac, the selfsame quarterback from high school.

Perhaps, in Paul Blart: Mall Cop 3, Part 2, he will find peace and grace, a martyr for the cause of Happy Madison.

Soon, however, Blake discovers that both he and his client are being used as dupes by a Communist lawyer, who hopes that Chavez will be found guilty and executed, thereby creating a martyr for the Red cause.

Instead, they make their hero a martyr for anyone who longs to make art without the minimum requirements for the job.

Instead of being a martyr for his cause, he just comes off as another fanatic holding a grudge against the United States.

If you are experiencing a lot of symptoms and if you could benefit from a medication, don't martyr yourself for a cause of wanting to do things medication - free.»

How has Galileo been portrayed as a martyr for free science in its contest with the authority of religion?

AP parents don't opt for a natural birth because they want to martyr for their child.

I didn't feel like a martyr for pumping.

He died as a martyr for the cause of human dignity and freedom.

It will be how the world reacts to his death that elevates him to the status of martyr for his cause.

Those who describe Stephen as the first martyr for the cause of Jesus and the in - breaking kingdom of God should not forget this forerunner from the desert whose actions echo those of Nathan and the prophets of Israel, and whose death foreshadows the death of truth incarnate and love crucified.

The principle was extended to those non-believers who stoned to death the first martyr for the faith, Stephen.

The work of the Eternal Word of God, present in men spermatically, as Justin Martyr for example put it, offered this possibility of salvation, so that the historical accident of having lived after Jesus or having heard about Him was not the necessary condition of the salvation which God purposed for His human children.

So circulating a photograph of bin Laden bloodied by U.S. troops would almost certainly do more harm than good, not least by fueling the perception that the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks is a martyr for true Islam.

Conservatives are praising the decision as a firm stand against liberalism, while progressives are hailing Waltke as a martyr for the cause of truth and free thought.

He was a man for others — a martyr for the poor, oppressed and exploited.

Updike was not a martyr for his faith, but he was not above treating mainline Protestantism as the cross he was meant to carry.

It felt like I was carrying a piano on my back and I was exhausted and empty, but I was getting proud and arrogant because I felt like a real martyr for Christ.

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.»

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.

Come be a martyr for your book of lies!

To many Protestants, they were forerunners of the Reformation: courageous champions of sola Scriptura, critics of a corrupt hierarchy, and, in Hus» case, a martyr for the cause of truth.

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

@april: And if they had died, they would be called martyrs for their Lord... or the Lord took them to be with him... or Satan did it, right?

Indeed, Christians all over the world are martyred for their beliefs.

I would hardly call believing in God «safe» considering the historical record of people who have been martyred for witnessing to their faith in word and deed.

Often there are new martyrs for whom to give thanks, Always there is music of the most relevant and powerful kind.

And he and the other Apostles probably forgot to pay their Roman taxes and the legendary actions by the Romans made them martyrs for future greed.

Early Christians were not martyred for metaphors and fictional stories.

Tracing the historical story of underground Christians in Japan in the mid-17th century, Endo offers a stark look at the realities of following Christ under persecution, and the intense psychological struggle of a particular priest to know whether it would be better for him to be martyred for his faith or to recant.

What about Christians who are martyred for their faith?

And so too with the particular election of these baby boys, which, according to the Church's tradition, at least, was an election to heaven as the first martyrs for Christ.

As their findings note, «every five minutes, a Christian is martyred for their faith.»

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

Well, part of the problem is that the legends in the Bible frequently exhibit mythological archetypes that have been employed by countless religions, such as the God martyred for mankind's salvation.

there are some who will be martyred for their belief in the LORD JESUS CHRIST... they are blessed.

The eyewitnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus — those who ate, drank, spoke with, and listened to the Lord Jesus Christ after His Resurrection — were so convinced of the Good News of God's Love, Forgiveness, Peace, and Healing Power for all humanity revealed by the Risen Jesus Christ that these eyewitnesses were willing to die as martyrs for their belief in the Risen Christ as fully God and fully man when it was illegal to do so under Roman authority (where Cesar was considered a deity in the state cult religion).

This story revolves round Onias, a high priest in Jerusalem in the second century BC., reputed to be a holy and righteous man, who was believed by some to have been martyred for his faith.26

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.

For the latter this means those who were martyred for believing in the faith but were not baptized yet.

I appreciated your comment, «You laugh, but I know you all also weep with me, that people have been martyred for our faith and we have squandered it in ignorance.»

We follow proudly the great saints of our Church, the folk we admire and our ancestors who were martyred for their faith.