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Quotes About Witness

The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.
~ Pope Francis
Art and the saints are the greatest apologetics for our faith.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.
~ Frederick Buechner
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
~ Matthew Simpson
Merciful God, release us from the time of trial and oppression, that we may witness to the eternal hope of grief becoming joy and life rising from death. Amen.
~ Unknown
It's not your life, it's life. Life is bigger than you if you can imagine that. Life isn't something you possess, it's something you take part in and you witness.
~ Unknown
My reason to live is to love, my reason to get is to give. - The lord is my witness.
~ Nurudeen Ushawu
You pass as a guy; I, as pregnant. Our waiter cheerfully tells us about his family, expresses delight in ours. On the surface, it may have seemed as though your body was becoming more and more "male," mine, more and more "female." But that's not how it felt on the inside. On the inside, we were two human animals undergoing transformations beside each other, bearing each other loose witness. In other words, we were aging.
~ Maggie Nelson
218. As her witness, I can testify to no reason, no lesson. But I can say this: in watching her, sitting with her, helping her, weeping with her, touching her, and talking with her, I have seen the bright pith of her soul. I cannot tell you what it looks like, exactly, but I can say that I have seen it.
~ Maggie Nelson
On the surface, it may have seemed as though your body was becoming more and more "male," mine becoming more and more "female." But that's not how it felt on the inside. On the inside, we were two human animals undergoing transformations beside each other, bearing each other loose witness. In other words, we were aging.
~ Maggie Nelson
t. 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
Der Raum der Kirche ist nicht dazu da, um der Welt ein Stück ihres Bereiches streitig zu machen, sondern gerade um der Welt zu bezeugen, daß sie Welt bleibe, nämlich die von Gott geliebte und versöhnte Welt.
~ Unknown
breakthroughs in the evolution of human consciousness will be the recognition of the subtle complexity and the hidden inner world that animals carry around with them. The innocence and silence of the animal world has a huge subtlety to it that is anything but dumb, but rather notices everything and is present in everything. Animals carry a huge ministry of witness to the silence of time and to the depth of nature. They are like the landscape in a sense: they live too in the mode of silence.
~ John O'Donohue
Beyond my failings as a racist, I knew I was not wanted in the South. When people are engaged in something they are not proud of, they do not welcome witnesses.
~ John Steinbeck
If you can believe, you will see many miracles.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness.
~ Hesiod
Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.
~ Shaun Wright-Phillips
It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
~ Steve Earle
Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Your life may be the only bible some people read!
~ Unknown
Education is not all the lessons we learn from, in our life. We all are witness to our own life, and we gain knowledge from our mistakes and that gives us wisdom, we can all speak about our own lessons we learn from living our own life, & that they don't teach in school!
~ Unknown
Education is not all the lessons we learn from, in our life. We all are witness to our own life, and we gain knowledge from our mistakes and that gives us wisdom, we can all speak about our own lessons we learn from living our own life, and that they don't teach in school!
~ Unknown
Thus the face of things in life changes, the centre of empires, the register of fortunes, the chart of positions, all that seemed final, are perpetually remoulded and during his life-time a man can witness the completest changes just where those seemed to him least possible
~ Marcel Proust
There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
~ Margery Allingham