A Martyr's Grace Quotes

“Let goods and kindred go, this moral life also; the body they may kill; God’s truth abideth still; his kingdom is forever. —Martin Luther, 1529, based on Psalm 46”
― Marvin J. Newell, A Martyr's Grace: Stories of Those Who Gave All for Christ and His Cause

“martyrdom has two sides to it. One is what humans do to God’s servants. The other is what God intends to accomplish through it.8 No martyrdom is an accident. God is never caught off guard by the death of any of His servants. He has purposes and plans by the calling of some to die while in His service. It is for the advancement of world evangelization, not the curtailing of it.”
― Marvin J. Newell, A Martyr's Grace: Stories of Those Who Gave All for Christ and His Cause

“We are rejoicing in sorrow, rejoicing in the certainty of the resurrection, the blessed hope, and the crowns which shall be theirs.2”
― Marvin J. Newell, A Martyr's Grace: Stories of Those Who Gave All for Christ and His Cause

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.” –Søren Kierkagaard7”
― Marvin J. Newell, A Martyr's Grace: Stories of Those Who Gave All for Christ and His Cause

“American philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once stated, “A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.”6”
― Marvin J. Newell, A Martyr's Grace: Stories of Those Who Gave All for Christ and His Cause