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Quotes About Witness

Éramos religiosos, tínhamos o céu por testemunha.
~ Machado de Assis
As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Anyone, Eliza is thinking, who describes dying as 'slipping away' or 'peaceful' has never witnessed it happen. Death is violent, death is a struggle. The body clings to life, as ivy to a wall, and will not easily let go, will not surrender its grip without a fight.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
God can deliver you so well that some people won't believe your testimony.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Your enemies are not to be destroyed, grant them longevity to witness your success.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
What happened in Nanking, I couldn't claim that as my tragedy. I was not affected. I was not killed.
~ Amy Tan
to be a witness to the grace and power of our Lord to keep us united with Himself, and seek by word and
~ Andrew Murray
Unfaithful in prayer, weak in the working of the Spirit, its witness to Christ a mere formality, and unfaithful to its worldwide mission—such are the marks of a powerless church.
~ Andrew Murray
The fourth truth of the gospel is that Christ's followers are to be His witnesses, ever testifying of His wonderful love, of His power to redeem, of His continual abiding presence, and of His wonderful power to work in us. Every one of us is called to be living proof and witness of what Jesus can do, not only by His words, but also by His life and actions. Christ's followers must tell people and bring them to the throne of grace.
~ Andrew Murray
We learn from Hebrews 11:4 that it was by faith that Abel offered an acceptable sacrifice, and his name appears first in the record of those whom the Bible calls believers. By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous (Hebrews 11:4).
~ Andrew Murray
Your life can, through loving obedience and the indwelling of the risen Christ, be a very strong witness in the world, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
~ Andrew Murray
A witness can be of more value than a policy analyst. An amateur witness, free of conceptual bias, sometimes sees the plainest truth. One should never be blinded by tailoring.
~ Andrew Solomon
What you are calling "I" is itself a feeling that arises among the contents of consciousness. Consciousness is prior to it, a mere witness of it, and, therefore, free of it in principle.
~ Sam Harris
The Brit's eyes had this pucker of awful witness.
~ Sam Lipsyte
It is hardly a coincidence that the cadences of Chambers's HUAC testimony should anticipate the prose of Witness . The House Committee on Un-American Activities had given him his true voice...
~ Sam Tanenhaus
Right in front of God, Daddy, and everyone else in our family, she dropped to her knees and began giving Frank Darling light puffs of air, her lips sealed on his like the lid on a Mason jar of fresh canned peaches.
~ Sandra Chastain
Our job as a writer is to represent the world and to bear witness to it.
~ Sartre, Jean-Paul
But i am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.
~ Saul Bellow
I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.
~ Saul Bellow
proclaim when we evangelize, and it's what makes our efforts at evangelization fruitful.
~ Scott Hahn
Mary is the only possible witness to Jesus's conception and birth. And Luke is a credible witness to Mary's "pondering.
~ Scott Hahn
Nature is God's greatest evangelist.
~ Johathan Edwards
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
~ John 1335 Bible
A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probably there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.
~ John Ashbery