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Quotes About Witness

I call the gods to witness.
~ William Shakespeare
I Have a Witness" Sometimes a center the soul can recognize will speak from anywhere , inside a mountain, or from a whirlwind ... The world can take, the soul restores. A million wrong voices proclaim One light lives forever.
~ William Stafford
The Christian social witness is achieved only insofar as Christians are deeply implicated in the real life of society - in unions and political clubs and citizen groups and the like; it is not made by Christian people gathering off by themselves in a parish house to study and discuss social issues.
~ William Stringfellow
You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.
~ William Wilberforce
Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.
~ William Wilberforce
We knew about the gas chambers. As soon as you arrived in Auschwitz, you knew about the gas chambers. How, I don't know. But we knew it. We saw that huge, black, smoky fire; we lived close by. We smelled the odor. You can never forget that.
~ Willy Lindwer
Police Commit The Worst Criminal Activities Than The Very People They've Locked Up. Biggest Corrupt & Racist Institution.
~ Witness
The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness
~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand
certainly will be relevant to our witness to the state. But the fundamental need right now for Christians is to think seriously about whether the Church's own marginalized sexual minorities will be treated, unequivocally, as sisters and brothers in Christ.
~ David P. Gushee
knows that courtroom
~ David Rosenfelt
The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.
~ David Seabury
If we witness an act of discrimination but do not speak up or intervene, then we tacitly support it.
~ David Suzuki
I was eternally earthbound, a witness but no prophet.
~ David Thibodeau
the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another
~ David Whyte
The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.
~ David Whyte
It is exhausting living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.
~ David Wojnarowicz
How can I live so that when someone sees me, they are pointed to Jesus? When I speak, is it the Messiah's truths they hear? How can I live that no power is seen to be mine, no authority, no crown, no glory. It all belongs to him. I am the willing, loving servant, providing hands, feet, voice, eyes, and ears for the Holy Spirit to use." "It is the challenge we all should accept," Alban said slowly. "Once again I am blessed by your words.
~ Davis Bunn
Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.
~ Mark Lawrence, Red Sister
Evangelism is more about being than being perfect.
~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck
My ACTIONS should draw people to the God I serve, not my SALES PITCH. If people want what I have, they'll ask me how to get it. If not, that's their business.
~ Stefne Miller, Collision
Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.
~ Steven Moffat
C'était une longue étreinte, déchirante de tendresse et de douleur, le symbole, pour tous ceux qui en étaient les témoins, de ce que la condition humaine recèle de plus tragique: l'amour à l'épreuve de l'ultime séparation. L'éternité du sentiment et la finitude des corps.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
Some evenings I have the impression that Grandpapa Noirtier patrols our corridors in a century-old wheelchair sadly in need of a drop of oil. To foil the decrees of fate, I am now planning a vast saga in which the key witness is not a paralytic but a runner. You never know. Perhaps it will work.
~ Jean-Dominique Bauby
You're not going to do anything, to fix anything," Irene said as she drove me to the office. "You're just going to bear witness to his life. I think sometimes that's the greatest gift we can give one another.
~ Jeanne Ray