Quotes About Witness

Did you seem them?

For it is the body that drags us down. It is attachment, identification, which makes us miserable. That is the secret: To think that I am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but a series of paintings — scenes on a canvas — of which I am the witness.

Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity.

If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

Single Christians living in purity and community are billboards for the sufficiency of Jesus

To hold the courage to let another witness our tears, while refuting fears invitation to shield face, is to grant the most privileged of all loving intimacies to them.

a series of corroborative facts is not necessarily evidence. Seeing

At the crisis of my fever, I besought Hollingsworth to let nobody else enter the room, but continually to make me sensible of his own presence… then he should be the witness how courageously I would encounter the worst. It still impresses me almost a matter of regret, that I did not die then, when I had tolerably made up my mind to do it

And each time I witness a cruel act by a corrupt scythe, I seed the clouds somewhere in the world, and bring a lamentation of rain. Because rain is the closest thing I have to tears. —The Thunderhead

Esta noche seremos testigos del espectáculo de la estupidez y la tragedia humana. Mañana lo viviremos.

Mi mayor deseo para la humanidad no es la paz ni la comodidad ni la alegría. Es que todavía sigamos muriendo un poco por dentro cada vez que seamos testigos de la muerte

Tonight we witness the spectacle of human folly and tragedy," he said. "Tomorrow, we shall live it.

If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.

If we are witnesses without memory, we are not witnesses at all. A hollow cylinder through which the wind blows will not remember the whistle it produces.

front of the D.A., and returned to the stand. "These are the flares that you took from the defendant that night?" "They

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.

I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

Kiowa who saw it happen said it was like watching a rock fall, or a big sandbag or something-Just Boom-then down. Not like in the movies where the dead guy rolls around and does fancy spins and goes ass over teakettle-not like that. Kiowa said. The bastard just flat fuck fell. Boom down. Nothing else.

He didn't speak. He was simply there, like the river and the late-summer sun. And yet by his presence, his mute watchfulness, he made it real. He was the true audience. He was a witness, like God, or like the gods, who look on in absolute silence as we live our lives, as we make our choices or fail to make them.

I knew that I could talk for the rest of my life about what happened to my baby, I could explain it in great detail, I could describe what I saw laid out there on that slab at A. A. Rayner's place, one piece, one inch, one body part at a time. I could do all of that and people would still not get the full impact. . . . They had to see what I had seen. The whole nation had to bear witness to this.

since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the most dangerous and repressive force that the world has ever known.

You are worthy to be seen. You are worthy to be heard. You are worthy to be sat with, to be walked beside. Even in your quietest moments, you are worthy of witness.

All who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted" (2 Tim 3:12). So if a believer experiences no form of persecution, it may mean that he or she doesn't have a faith worth persecuting. Don't be a secret agent Christian: go public with your trust in Christ.