"Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal."
— John 12:24–25
Source: Mrs. Howard Taylor, The Triumph of John and Betty Stam (1935), which sums up their martyrdom with this verse