A Living Martyrdom: To be True at All Costs

The hymnwriter and theologian F. W. Faber writes with beautiful prose the challenges that each one of us faces when it comes to living a life faithfully according to the truth that is within us:

Martyrdom ... is often a battlefield where no clash of earthly combatants is heard; it is often a theater no wider than a nameless home. Sometimes it is passive endurance; sometimes it is active opposition; sometimes it is the stout declaration of a truth; but it is always a firm belief in the eternal distinctions…