Quotes About Witness

In meditation we witness our thoughts without any judgment.

Testis unus testis nullus [A single witness is no witness].

"Who saw him die?""I," said the fly,"With my little eye,I saw him die."

The blood of Christ has changed our standing before the sight of God. Our lives should demonstrate this glorious change before the sight of men.

The Omnipresence of Violence Violence abounds in American society, touching everyone's life as victim, perpetrator, or anxious observer and witness of the endless violent acts committed locally, nationally, and internationally.

We're downtown New Yorkers and had very close proximity to the events of September 11th. Like everybody on the island of Manhattan, we were impacted by it in so many ways in terms of what we saw, what we felt, what our daily experience became in the wake of it.

It's satisfying to watch a story where you feel like you're a fly on the wall.

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

The Christian life of obedience is, therefore, not a pilgrimage toward a goal, as is commonly supposed. It is a witness or signpost to that telos (end, goal) that has already been achieved by Christ the Kurios and will be consummated in the last day by the action of God

You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to desire to set down what they have witnesses for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.

How can we be witnesses of the one true God if we hold the truth as our own possession? God meant his truth for the world.

But I know Jesus arose. I feel his presence now, here, with me. I see the evidence of his Word everyday. From creation forth, the whole world is witness to God's plan revealed through his Son. From the beginning, he prepared us. In the passing of the seasons; in the way flowers spring forth, die, and drop seeds for life to begin again; in the sunset and sunrise. Jesus' sacrifice is reenacted every day of our lives if we but have the eyes to see.

We're Christians. We have to care what people think. The appearance of wrongdoing, remember? I'm not going to move in with you had have people think we're living in sin. What sort of witness would that be?

What the eyes had seen could not be erased.

Preach Christ . . . and if you must, use words." Comforting others puts our pain into perspective.

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.

Solzhenitsyn emerged from the grinding misery of the gulag as a fearless man of God whose prophetic witness to the world helped bring down an evil empire.

anyone ...on the scene...

The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.

Sadly, the lack humility and expansive presence of pride in the words and deeds of Donald Trump make him unqualified to be president of the United States of America. He should not be given four more years to hold the highest political office in our land. Christians who ignore this not only undermine the present and future good of the nation, but also their witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I will not defend myself; those who judge me by the conduct of my life — my writings and actions — will bear witness that I cannot 'return' to an ivory tower I have never inhabited.

Delphine witnessed awful things occurring yo other humans. Worse than that, she was powerless to alter their fate. It would be that way all her life- disasters, falling like chairs all around her, falling so close they disarranged her hair, but not touching her.

let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word.