Who will dare?
“Who will now dare say that I have lost my age and years? Who will say that I have lost my courage?”
- Algerius, an imprisoned Italian student, to his fellow noblemen who urged him to renounce his faith, Martyrs Mirror, p. 570-573
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The true countenance of God has been revealed over my life.
“The accomplishments, arts, or gifts which God has given me, were at first pleasant companions and recreations; now they yield me holy fruits. It is true, I have sweated, suffered cold, and as much as I was able, watched night and day; but this labor has tended and redounded to make me more perfect; there never passed a day or hour without some improvement. Behold, the true countenance of God has been revealed over my life, and the Lord has caused me to experience great joy in my heart. In Him alone I shall rest in peace.”
- Algerius, Martyrs Mirror, p. 570-573
Tortures not worth speaking of
“… There is but one remedy, one medicine, which can cure all their infirmities; and this remedy gives to me also strength, and life, and cheerfulness to suffer all these fears and afflictions, which are but momentary, and not worth speaking of; this is the hope which I have placed in heaven.”
- Algerius,Martyrs Mirror, p. 570-573
See against whom you fight.
“Be sober, therefore, and awake, and open the eyes of your understanding, and see against whom you fight, that it is not against man, but against God.”
– Hans van Overdam, Martyrs Mirror
Do you think we run on uncertainties?
“Do you think we run on uncertainties? …We forsake our dear children, whom I would not forsake for the whole world, and we stake upon it all we have – should we run on uncertainties yet?”
- Claesken, Martyrs Mirror, p. 613
How little we then were in our own eyes.
“Let us constantly remember the days of our illumination, and how little we then were in our own eyes, when we humbled ourselves under the mighty hand of God.”
- Joost Verkindert, Martyrs Mirror, p. 848-863
Where are the tears over our past sins?
“But where are the tears which we have shed, my dear wife, over our past sins, when our souls were wounded even unto death, yea, sunk in hell?”
- Thomas van Imbroeck, Martyrs Mirror, p. 578-582
I can speak of what God has given me.
“I can speak of what God has given me; that I know.”
- Pieter Witese, Martyrs Mirror, p. 548-549
Regard not the joy and pleasure of this world.
“Take heed to yourself, that you abound with this precious Spirit ; for of that with which one is filled He will bring forth. Regard not the joy and pleasure of this world…”
- Joris Wippe, Martyrs Mirror, p. 584-588
They are already too wise in themselves.
“They are already too wise in themselves, already helped, who so openly forsake Christ, in avarice which they style only industry, in pride which with them is only neatness, in adultery which they term only friendship.”
- Valerius Schoolmaster, Martyrs Mirror, p. 726-731
