Lent With Saint Thomas More

From The Sadness of Christ:

If any man in his heart before the less esteemed Christ by reason of the fear and anguish that was
so lately in him, now must this manful hardy courage of Christ recover his estimation again, considering
he so boldly adventureth to go unto all this armed rout. And as sure as he is to be slain by them (for he
foreknew all things that should befall unto him) yet discovereth he himself unto these wretches, albeit
they know him not, and thereby voluntarily betaketh himself unto them, as a sacrifice cruelly to be killed
of them. And truly this so sudden and so great a change of reason ought much to be marvelled at in his
blessed humanity.

As he wrote these words Saint Thomas knew that he was likely to be executed by decapitation.  Sign a document and he is released and returned to Royal favor.  Virtually everyone whose opinion he values is telling him to do so.  Yet, out of love for Christ, he resisted all temptation and went bravely to his death.