Sentences with phrase «martyrs because»

For York, American churches produce few martyrs because its members are so willing to do violence when the state asks them to.

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

Many became martyrs because of their new 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.

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.

It is just as true here as in the profane order that the disciple is martyr because he is a witness, not the inverse.

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

«Jesus was martyred because He challenged political authority.

In Africa, toward the end of the third century, many Christians were martyred because they refused to serve in the armies.

It was fascinating studying the martyrs like Polycarp, Ignatius and Justin Martyr because they wanted to be martyred.

Not exact matches

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

I think that is the view you have because of the weight you give the early martyrs in validating your beliefs, e.g. «people would not die for what they don't believe».

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

i was just there they call Joseph Smith a martyr... wasn't he gunned down in a jail house faces charges for treason because he called to arms against his country?

A martyr is, by definition, a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.

We must often put our feet in the shoes of the martyrs but we must realize that we are not martyrs; we most often come closer to being the torturers and the persecutors, because we often fail to understand and what we do not understand we would like to hate and destroy.

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.

I love looking at these martyrs during worship because their smiles are a picture of the joy they know now.

It is a great pity that there is no record to substantiate this statement because those who praise the heroic deeds of the martyrs are hesitant to admit that those who were gunned down that day were mostly dalits.

The apostles were martyred and Jesus didn't fight back when he was captured, but because of their determination and peace they conquered more than nations.

Because Milk was the first outspokenly gay elected official in California, he is a martyr to the cause of gay rights, and the film (with Sean Penn) emphasizes Milk's struggle against homophobia.

And he was not shot because of his religious beliefs, as a martyr is.

Christianity is where it is now, because of the blood and sweat of the martyrs.

After a time, however, some Jews began to speak about resurrection of the body, which to them meant the entire human personality; they did this because it was inconceivable that Jews who suffered death as martyrs in the time of the Maccabees should be «cast as rubbish to the void,» their faithfulness to Judaism unrewarded and their bravery denied enduring value.

This is an important lesson: not because of his action is the witness a martyr, but because of his word!

Moreover, from St Alban to St Thomas More, the Church's martyrs have suffered because their beliefs were seen to threaten the political status quo.

It was just because of this view that the doctrine of resurrection had come to the fore in later Jewish thought when men yearned for the vindication of their martyrs.

This is because a martyr's blood is a badge of honor — proof positive that he died in service of Islam.

«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?

«No, these modern martyrs were killed because of how they lived out their faith.

The Jesuits, or «Black Robes,» as they were known, had a very uneven relationship with native Americans, not least because the most famous of them — St. Isaac Jogues and his companions — had been martyred just a decade before Kateri's birth.

«Roman was the universal community — and countless CHRISTIAN martyrs died because they would not embrace the universal community of Rome's morality.»

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.

Christian martyrs went against their government and allowed themselves to be killed not for reward, but because they were forced to choose between denying God or denying their life, and they chose God over their life.

Upon hearing of this chain of cruelty, Justin Martyr wrote his Second Apology to the Roman senate, protesting that Christians were maltreated for no other reason than because they bore the name of Christ.

Despite this, there are social martyrs among the homeless because they are suffering and homeless as a result of their faith in God.

Eric Metaxas» new biography, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, kept my attention because he was able to do just that.

Cyprian's ideal is likewise a martyr bishop, but because he must counter the rival claims of the confessors to bind and to loose by virtue of their witnessing to Christ, Cyprian must, unlike Ignatius, reach back explicitly to the prerogatives of the apostles and notably Peter.87 Cyprian called Peter a bishop88 and regarded every bishop as filled with the Holy Spirit89 and as the vicar of Christ, succeeding by vicarious ordination to the apostles.90 Thus Cyprian found the essence and fulfillment of the Church in the bishop:

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.

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

She can have some great advice because she's been where you are now, but she can also be a * bit * of a martyr.

It is almost inconceivable that de Blasio would miss Monday's wake for martyred NYPD officer Miosotis Familia: That is, inconceivable because the mayor's perpetually troubled relationship with his police force couldn't survive such an insult — but almost, because let's face it: The Kaiser is capable of anything.

That is because I am in the kitchen running around like the control freak that I am, cooking, prepping, cleaning and naturally, I am a martyr so I have to do it all by myself!

Yet because the only way these outlaw martyrs can reclaim their freedom is to nobly strike back against a society characterized by male - propagated sexism and objectification — in one of many instances of overkill, a truck driver, besides simply gesturing obscenely to the women, even has mud flaps with silvery nude women decals protecting his truck's tires — Thelma & Louise «s feminist call to arms winds up sounding woefully simple - minded.

I deliberately chose not to make them a martyr simply because they had a propensity to see the glass as mostly empty.

She did it because just yesterday she had gone to fetch him from Chalatenango, the region to the north where he lived with his grandfather; because this morning she had brought him on the bus to San Salvador, a dangerous journey over guerrilla - held land, but a necessary journey if her son were someday to state «When I was nine I attended the funeral of a martyred saint.»

The whole idea of No Kill is moving away from this «martyr» approach - we have to kill because no one else cares.

They have an impressive selection of Panamanian rum... but alcohol wasn't being served because it was Martyr's Day!

The artist, in the 19th - century Saints» Legend, struggles against the most determined parental and social opposition, suffering the slings and arrows of social opprobrium like any Christian martyr, and ultimately succeeds against all odds — generally, alas, after his death — because from deep within himself radiates that mysterious, holy effulgence: Genius.

Somewhat more successful, because more concrete and straightforward, is an English variation on the theme of the artist as a social martyr, Henry Wallis's Death of Chatterton, and overtly sentimental and marvelously detailed costume piece, praised by Ruskin in his 1856 Academy Notes as «faultless and wonderful.»