Quotes About Witness

Was wissen sie davon? Sie waren jung, und man hat Sie mit Lügen vergiftet, bevor Sie urteilen konnten. Aber wir, - wir haben es gesehen und geschehen lassen! Was war es? Trägheit des Herzens? Gleichgültigkeit? Armut? Egoismus? Verzweiflung? Aber wie konnte es eine solche Pest weren? Meinen Sie, ich denke nicht täglich darüber nach?

I have never heard a horse scream and I can hardly believe it [...] The belly of one of the horses has been ripped open and its guts are trailing out. It gets its feet caught up in them and falls, but it gets to its feet again.

Riders on the Ferris Wheel got the clearest, most horrific view of what happened next.

of the murder and whether he could possibly have been out there at the country club at the time the murder was committed. "There's not a chance. At the time the murder must have been committed, Hedley was in a drugstore having

I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be. Still, I was there. I was there as much as anyone else was there.

Imagine the power of our lives if we could know with confidence that when others see us, they would also see God; that God would reveal Himself through an ordinary human being; that those who today are blind to God would have their eyes opened by the life each of us lives.

I looked around me and absorbed the peace of a sprawling bustling city stopped dead, socked in snow. My puppy jumped and barked, twisting and sliding. I was instantly wildly grateful just to be awake and witness all this stillness. I don't ever want to die, I thought, I want to live forever.

I watched with the furious cynicism peculiar to women whom circumstances force mutely to witness folly

That which we witness, we are forever changed by, and once witnessed we can never go back.

I will not watch a whale die. I've not seen a whale die since I left Greenpeace in 1977.

True believers in Christ, are we going to follow through and profess Him wherever we go?

An account of an expedition is not a novel. Therefore an authentic account can never be given, let alone written down by someone who was not present.

He'd gone back to speak to the bartender at the Yakimanka Bar, but the man had gotten a rapid case of the three monkeys. He no longer could see, hear, or speak of the shooting.

Arkhip learned early in his career that a tape recorder was a crutch. Investigators depended on the recording and failed to listen to a witness's answers. Without listening, there was no hearing; without hearing, one could not ask intelligent follow-up questions. Opportunities not taken were opportunities lost. Arkhip took notes and maximized his intuitive abilities. With years of practice, he could recall almost verbatim what a witness had said.

One living sermon is worth a hundred explanations.

People are looking for a demonstration, not an explanation.

Evangelism is not an optional accessory to our life. It is the heartbeat of all that we are called to be and do. It is the commission of the church that gives meaning to all else that is undertaken in the name of Christ.

You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds;

Su ejército, que a menudo se comportaba con crueldad e indisciplina, fue considerado como una «pureza de armas» ejemplar y a aquellos de nosotros que fuimos testigos de las matanzas de civiles llevadas a cabo por israelíes nos insultaron por ser mentirosos, antisemitas o amigos del «terrorismo».

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

I want to see a good miracle. I want to see a man with one leg, and then I want to see the other leg grow out.

Nobody ever saw anybody who had seen anybody who had heard of anybody that had ever seen anybody that had ever seen one of the original Hebrew manuscripts.

We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. – Acts 4:20

Philippians 4:5 Let your graciousness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.