Sentences with phrase «only martyrs»

I suppose they're only martyrs if they die for their faith.

In the first resurrection only the martyrs will participate.

Perhaps only martyrs can truly understand this reasoning.

Not exact matches

John... one of the 12, also wrote «Revelation»... the only one of the 12 not martyred

With the raging of ISIS and other jihadi groups throughout the Middle East, Antioch is being martyred once again: Not only the faithful but also clergy are being persecuted and killed in the name of a radical form of Islam.

Books, movies and plays were disseminated and discussed with offense taken only by the so - called «wingnuts» of the right who, though disgusted, understood that these extravagant fantasies were simple, immature venting: in truth, the left knew that such a horrific event would martyr Bush, place Dick Cheney in the Oval Office and solidify, not weaken, Republican power.

one only need look at the Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution to get a mirror image of what it was like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!

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 martyrs only testify to the Truth that Jesus rose again on the third day and the martyrs believed all the way to death.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

For centuries the only way this religion of sword has been able to proliferate has been to brainwash people by getting them angry, and injecting sorrow, into their souls about the dead and martyrs, as well as creating hate towards an enemey, even a made - up one Without a funeral, mourning, and a physical shrine, muslims are lost!

Among other coverage of persecution and international religious freedom in 2015, CT reported how Libya's martyrs witnessed to Egypt, how the video of a 10 - year - old forgiving ISIS went viral, and why there were only 53 Christians among America's 2,184 Syrian refugees.

Had Judas been confronted with the challenge «Deny the Messiah or die» only a few weeks earlier, while still hoping Jesus was the real messiah, he would probably have been the first Christian martyr.

He now sees himself as a martyr, and I imagine Father is the only one who can stop him now.

Only by offering our «spiritual worship» and sufferings can we be united with Him on the cross and bring back to this country with its long Christian heritage, a society worthy of man and of our martyrs.

«He is considered the proto - martyr of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith,» only recently founded at that time, of which he was the head.

John was also the only disciple the didn't die as a martyr even though he was boiled in oil (which he survived unharmed).

Discussing some sermons of St. Augustine (first preached probably in the year 397 but newly discovered in only 1990), Peter Brown notes that Augustine was often required to preach at festivals of the martyrs.

Persecution and suppression only produced more Baptists and gave them the mantle of martyrs.

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

Persecuting the deniers would only give them the publicity that they desire and need, maybe even make them into martyrs or folk heroes.

In this act of interrogation, lessons that one learns from a writer - bishop - martyr like Cyprian are indispensable, not only in demonstrating the hermeneutical principle that one must reach back in order to move forward, [27] but also to indicate that the ongoing task of attributed implicit theological disclosure is an essential, fundamental, and crucial activity of the theologians of the church.

Since it is Christ's actual suffering in the body that establishes the mimetic model for martyrs like himself, to hold that Christ's suffering was only a «thought experience» is unacceptable, indeed unthinkable.»

In this act of interrogation, lessons that one learns from a writer - bishop - martyr like Cyprian are indispensable, not only in demonstrating the hermeneutical principle that one must reach back in order to move forward,

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.

In the light of all this, it almost seems impertinent to speak of Jesus» weakness when only the greatest of martyrs have been able to share, in some measure, his cup of suffering but without being able to absorb the anguish in the way that he did.

It means that we are in communion with the prophets who announced God's will and promise for humankind and society, with the martyrs who sealed their confession with suffering and death, and also with the doubtful who can only whisper their confession of the Name.»

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.

Such a death only served to reinforce the idea prevalent in the church that» [t] he martyrs were, after the Apostles, the supreme representatives of the community of the faithful in God's presence.

It also explains why in America appeals like Hovey's or York's to the exemplary nature of the martyrs don't make immediate sense; in most people's minds, the only people who die for their faith are delusional and suicidal figures like Jim Jones, founder of the People's Temple, and more than 900 of his followers.

Martyrdom is a «work of memory» — no one can declare herself a martyr, only the community can.

The last military martyrs no longer objected to army service as such; they only refused to fight against Christians.

A torn humanity which has passed through so many catastrophes, which has ruined itself through so many wars, which is still bleeding from so many wounds, can be saved by one thing only, which is rooted in and proceeds from divine love as it lives in the high religions, primarily in their saints and martyrs.

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.

At this point he went further than the passage in Isaiah 26:19, for he held out the hope that not only the faithful martyrs would be raised to everlasting blessedness, but the unfaithful apostates would be raised to receive their eternal punishment.

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.»

It was in such a situation of complexity, suffering and oppression and denial of basic human rights and humanity that one martyr, our contemporary, Dietrich Bonhoffer, came up with the idea or faith reflection that «only a powerless God can help».

I'm convinced now that sleep - deprived parenting does not make me any kind of a martyr — but only a bad parent.

Until now the only two ways to deal with sleepless nights were to let your baby cry herself to sleep or to become a sleep - deprived martyr and tough it out from dusk until dawn.

And breastfeeding a toddler or preschooler isn't all rainbow farting unicorns either, it can be very challenging and while I'm no martyr I'm also honest and realistic enough to admit that not only are there some special sweet moments breastfeeding beyond the first 12 months but there are also some crazy hard moments that I can't stand.

«Mughal emperors and British governors alike tried military solutions to the Sikh problems and succeeded only in adding to the roll of martyrs cherished by the proud and prickly people.

More importantly, history shows clearly that executions not only create martyrs, rallying people to a cause, but can also fuel a culture of revenge in which terrorism itself can flourish.

A number of Bronx Democrats — even those who want Espada gone — fear stripping him of his party enrollment would only make him «a martyr» and enhance his re-election chances.

But a reducing agent is called an antioxidant only when it acts as a martyr, sacrificing itself to protect some other species from being oxidized.

Now, Daddy has become an MC martyr, Stepdaddy a reckless sociopath, and the only question for Jax is why the writers are still jerking him around as in the old, complicated days.

The film was hugely successful and widely praised in its time, though it's really nothing more than the old C.B. De Mille formula of titillation and moralizing — Roman orgies and Christian martyrs — with only a fraction of De Mille's showmanship.

A scene with the couple fighting in bed perfectly illustrates the martyr dynamic at work: «I want to be alone,» Tom tells Violet furiously, only to insist that she come back in the room and bear witness to his anguished solitude.

He went back and played more of Mario + Rabbids, where he's still only a couple of worlds in and got some time with the impossibly named Warhammer 40K (colon) Inquisitor (hyphen) Martyr, «which is an interesting new take on the action RPG via the 40K universe».

Able to quote Shakespeare to girls and penal code to overly forceful police officers, Shakur is a genius / martyr whose only flaw is holding loyalty in high regard and lack thereof in low regard.

I'm glad that director Rodman Flender, a TV veteran picking up only his second theatrical credit since helming Leprechaun 2, shows us the real Conan instead of a martyr and a saint, as an early scene of him playing with his kids suggests we'll get.