Tonight I found this book "Tortured for Christ" by Richard Wurmbrand on a second-hand bookstore. I've been seeing this book promoted via Voice of Martyrs. This excerpt in the foreword by Tom White struck me:
Many today believe that a martyr is simply someone who dies for his faith. Unfortunately, by this definition we have lost the true significance and depth of martyrdom. St. Augustine once stated, "The cause, not the suffering, makes a genuine martyr." In his play Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot describes a martyr as one "who has become an instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in submission to God. The martyr no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of martyrdom."
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