Quotes About Witness

It's no small matter to cross an ocean,Chagall said. More can be lost than canvas and paint. An artist must bear witness, Monsieur Fry. He cannot turn away, even if he wished to. An artist cannot bear witness if he's dead.

Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying thank you too often, which was branded as bourgeois hypocrisy; courtesy was on the brink of extinction.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

If they were to go away from their land, they must have people round them who had known it, and so could testify to their identity.

God knew that Leigh had witnessed her share of brutality, but she felt a sudden vulnerability sitting in a small room with two loud men who were arguing about bitches while the horrific evidence of a savage sexual assault flashed across the screen.

A person who has been up close when a gun is fired into another human being never mistakes the sound of a gunshot for something else.

In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances. He had started off listening to an old Bush radio in the corner of the living room and now he had a phone in his hand on which he could pretend to throw a scrunched-up piece of paper into a waste bin. The world had waited a long time for that.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in his bosom, which will respond to truth when it is uttered with calmness and dignity.

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.

People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.

Nature is God's greatest evangelist.

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.