Quotes About Witness

If we, who have been redeemed, don't say what we have been redeemed from, how are those in the same bondage going to even know that there is hope.

Humanity is waiting for us. Not to hear about our actions, but to see our actions.

When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all.

The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness.

But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.

However, the primary job of a servant of God is to speak or to write words to convict people of God's truth. So, in the speaking or in the writing of words, he witnesses for God.

My ego is my employee – and I, the witness, am its employer.

One: God, beginning, source (Gen. 1:1). Two: witness,

Presence is one of the profound forms of Christian witness.

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.

Remember, you must never use your position to lord it over the heathen. Instead you must humble yourself and earn their respect though your own quiet faith and the power of the Holy Spirit. The missionary must seek nothing for himself, no seat of honor or hope of fame. Like the cabhorse in London, each of you must wear blinkers that blind you to every danger and to every snare and conceit. You must be content to suffer, to die, and to be forgotten. -Count Zinzendorf

Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches.

nadie sabe nada a lo que no ha asistido

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

A good lawyer never asks a witness a question she doesn't know the answer to.' 'But, Margaret, I'm not trying to be a good lawyer. I'm trying to be a good friend.

Many relationships go through violent and destructive pain-body episodes at regular intervals. It is almost unbearably painful for a young child to have to witness the emotional violence of their parents' pain-bodies, and yet that is the fate of millions of children all over the world, the nightmare of their daily existence.

The scene he witnessed there in the twilight depths of the African jungle was burned forever into the Englishman's brain.

stepped into the witness box to be examined. The defense wanted jurors who empathized with Muybridge—a married man who had a runaway wife, on the one hand, and a man who confronted a sexual rival, on the other.

Father Romain always made much of our being from the same place, just as Sebatstien did. Most people here did. It was a way of being joined to your old life through the presence of another person. At times you could sit for a whole evening with such individuals, just listening to their existence unfold, from the house where they were born to the hill where they wanted to be buried. It was their way of returning home, with you as a witness or as someone to bring them back to the present...

Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside us in the absence of an empathetic witness. —Peter Levine, The Unspoken Voice

judgement has been postponed so that the people of God might witness to God's kingdom and all might repent and enter the kingdom of God.

I would also argue against importing alien rationalistic norms to apply to Scripture. When the text speaks of a miracle, for example, let us accept the witness of the text. But by the same token, when the text reveals differences in parallel passages, let us accept that witness, too. To

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

I see," said the Count. From beneath the oafish face bestowed upon him by nature, and disguised beneath layers of diplomacy, a ray of malice flashed through that was beautiful to witness.