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Quotes About Witness

Your heart may tell you one thing, but it is the Word of God that must bear witness in this matter; any other testimony is of no value.
~ John Bunyan
How many caskets can we witnessBefore we see it's hard to live This life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.
~ Tupac Shakur
Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
~ Dar Williams
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian...and most of all, his family ought to know.
~ Unknown
But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there.
~ Neil Gaiman, The Wake
But even then I knew it wasn't me that saved her life. It wasn't about me. I was just there while she was maybe going to die and maybe not, and then she just didn't.
~ Lucy Corin
I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Frankly speaking, I'm not afraid of death. I don't endeavour to avert its advent. But I don't want to be a witness of it.
~ Alexander Zalan
As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.
~ Unknown
Death did not frighten her. In those years she had tended the dying, witnessed their demise, and laid out the dead. Death by sickness. Death in childbirth. Death by accident. Death by malice, once or twice. Death as the welcome visitor to great age.
~ Diane Setterfield
Every time she saw a videotape of the planes she moved a finger toward the power button on the remote. Then she kept on watching. The second plane coming out of that ice blue sky, this was the footage that entered the body, that seemed to run beneath her skin, the fleeting sprint that carried lives and histories, theirs and hers, everyone's, into some distance, out beyond the towers.
~ Don DeLillo
When you see a thing like that, a thing that becomes a newsreel, you begin to feel you are a carrier of some solemn scrap of history.
~ Don DeLillo
Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.
~ J.C. Ryle
Be very sure of this--people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.
~ J.C. Ryle
Sound Protestant and evangelical doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless: it causes harm. It is despised by insightful and perceptive men of the world as an invented and empty thing, and it brings Christianity into contempt.
~ J.C. Ryle
believe there is far more harm done by unholy and inconsistent Christians than we are aware of. Such people are among Satan's best allies. They pull down by their lives what pastors build with their sermons. They cause the chariot wheels of the gospel to drive heavily. They supply the children of this world with a never-ending excuse for remaining as they are.
~ J.C. Ryle
when people learn what they believe and why, they become bold in their witness and attractive in the way they engage others in debate or dialogue.
~ J.P. Moreland
My witness is the empty sky.
~ Jack Kerouac
If you hold on to any expectation, you miss the wisdom. It is impermanent. Be the One Who Knows, the witness to it all. This is how trust grows." And it is how love grows as well. Trust and love are the keys.
~ Jack Kornfield
Okay, so Malik had taped his nametag to his butt, but he was still standing in the witness box, ready to testify.)
~ Unknown
In the world everyone wants to be a 'wolf,' and no one is called to play the part of 'sheep.' Yet the world cannot live without this living witness of sacrifice. That is why it is essential that Christians should be very careful not to be 'wolves' in the spiritual sense - that is, people who try to dominate others. Christians must accept the domination of other people, and offer the daily sacrifice of their lives, which is united with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
~ Jacques Ellul
He believed he was celebrating them when he shared stories of their foibles. He felt the burden of being their living witness. Somehow the silliest details of their days were, to him, sacred. And he believed that if only the dominant culture could see these small moments, they would see their own human lives reflected in the other.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.
~ Lyman Abbott
and one who has not lived through it could never believe what happened.
~ Unknown