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Quotes About Witness

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness...
~ Ayn Rand
just north of the city—after all, he might have witnessed something—they saw a gun in plain view on the seat of his car. When Berkowitz emerged from his apartment
~ Stella Sands
CUNNINGHAM: Your Honor, Defense reconjures Satan to the stand. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Lou, you can come in now … Bailiff! Go fetch him! Go fetch Satan! BAILIFF: Alone? JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Go!
~ Stephen Adly Guirgis
They've been talking about their prom nonstop. Even the people that think it's a "joke" like Mary Elizabeth can't stop talking about what a "joke" it is. It's all very fun to witness.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Todd says that the doctor was rather horrified because we passed a German who had had his head shot off, but his arms and legs were still waving about and strange noises were coming out of him, and i thought even the doctor was a bit turned over by that.
~ Stephen E. Ambrose (Author)
they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.
~ Stephen King
What courage must a human possess to stand at ease and witness the birth of the sun.
~ Bo Bryan
If we do not show love to one another, the world has a right to question whether Christianity is true.
~ Francis Schaeffer
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
~ Julian Assange
If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
~ J. C. Ryle
The goal of our sanctification is that we place Christ on display in the way we love others.
~ Larry Crabb
By our actions we tell Him of our love.
~ Elizabeth of the Trinity
Post-Christendom allows the church to rediscover itself as agents of God's justice…[as] a community that 'does justice' in a different way to the state and can witness prophetically to the state about injustice. The church can say: 'Give us your prisoners, give us your poor, give us your homeless children and we will look after them.' The law tells us only what has gone wrong, not how to put it right. In this respect, the biblical concept of justice is far more empowering.
~ Jonathan Bartley
So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!
~ Jonathan Littell
When Christian teaching fails to connect beauty to the blessing of creation, an alternative account of beauty may develop. In some cases, beauty is appropriated and affirmed as a tool for witness to the gospel. The mistake here is subtle: rather than celebrating beauty as an aspect of the blessing of creation and thus an essential part of the good news of creation and its redemption, beauty becomes merely instrumental to Christian witness.
~ Jonathan R. Wilson
I have never heard such a conversation outside a police court.
~ Emlyn Williams
Porque lo interesante de la meditación –y esto podría ser una segunda definición– es crear en uno mismo una especie de testigo que espía el remolino de pensamientos sin dejarse arrastrar por ellos.
~ Emmanuel Carrère
They picked up all of the Jews from our very small town. They froze to death in the railway cars. You could see that? My father was standing watch there. They unloaded them afterward as corpses.
~ Eric A. Johnson
Adam Grolsch, who had witnessed the Jewish massacre in Pinsk, also witnessed two or three gas vans while he was in Rivne, Ukraine, but their function occurred to him only later:
~ Eric A. Johnson
Adam Grolsch, who had witnessed the Jewish massacre in Pinsk, also witnessed two or three gas vans while he was in Rivne, Ukraine, but their function occurred to him only later: "They were parked in Rivne, and nobody knew what they were. . . . That is to say, they were mobile gas chambers for smaller operations. My attention was drawn to it by the BBC.
~ Eric A. Johnson
We are called to follow His example of caring for the physical needs of others in order that the gospel witness of the kingdom might saturate the earth.
~ Eric Mason
Do not defend God's Word, but testify to it .
~ Eric Metaxas
It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation," he said. "Posterity will huzza for us."32
~ Eric Metaxas
So that's when I came up with the most ridiculous plan since I'd decided to take a witness statement from a ghost. It was a plan so stupid that even Baldrick would have rejected it out of hand.
~ Ben Aaronovitch