Quotes About Witness

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

If we don't show our love to one another the world has a right to questions whether Christianity is true...

Kimmy's not really talking to you. She only needs a witness, not an audience.

This is weft and the weave of story for me. The endless lyrical emerging of the earth's tremendous thinking and the humbling required to simply bear witness to it. And the extraordinary day, when for an hour or so you realise that you too are being witnessed.

Honest, diligent, attentive, productive, innovative, creative, faithful, fruitful, conscientious, hard work bears witness to God's nature and character.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.

To defeat your adversary and bury him is one thing. To dress him in a jester's costume and have him perform for you is another, more crushing blow. He survives to give witness ot his own powerlessness

Most men are good Christians in the verdict of their own opinion; but you know the law alloweth no man to be a witness in his own case, because their affection usually overreacheth conscience, and self-love deceiveth truth for its own interest.

Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if they were ushered in to witness the scene.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Bismilahir-rahmanir-rahim! I call to witness the ink, the quill, and the script, which flows from the quill; I call to witness the faltering shadows of the sinking evening, the night and all she enlivens; I call to witness the moon when she waxes, and the sunrise when it dawns. I call to witness the Resurrection Day and the soul that accuses itself; I call to witness time, the beginning and end of all things - to witness that every man always suffers loss.

Bismilahir-rehmanir-rahim I call to witness the ink, the quill, and the script, which flows from the quill; I call to witness the faltering shadows of the sinking evening, the night and all she enlivens; I call to witness the moon when she waxes, and the sunrise when it dawns. I call to witness the Resurrection Day and the soul that accuses itself; I call to witness time, the beginning and end of all things - to witness that every man always suffers loss.

Bio je jedna mogucnost, rijetka i neobicna, koju je trebalo sacuvati. Tako sam mislio, i odmah se pokajao. Upao je u moj zivot u casu slabosti, i bio uzrok i svjedok izdaje, kratkotrajne ali stvarne.

Onlookers often respond to the experience of chronically ill people by focusing on the supposed positives, presumably because it makes the pain of witness bearable.

Aveva sbattuto le palpebre, come se non fosse sicura di dov'era, né di essere chi era. Però riconobbe me, e mi sorrise. Per te non significa niente - ma per un uomo, a volte, un bagliore nella pupilla della persona amata può valere più di tutto. Capisci? Ha riconosciuto me prima di se stessa. Io testimoniavo che lei era viva, che lei esisteva - che è esistita.

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

The king died last. They made him watch and what he did to those princesses and his queen I will never repeat as long as I live. But Isaboe knows, for she walked the sleep of a monster who was witness to it, and if I could have one wish in my life," he said through gritted teeth, "it would be that I could tear from her mind the memory such depravity. Sweet Goddess, that I would have such a gift. I would give my life for it." And then he was sobbing, despairing at his uselessness.

I look around at the beach where I grew up. This is where everything changed for me. I was just a girl who happened to witness the arrival of a strange race of people from under the sea. One of them was the most beautiful person I ever met. He walked out of the ocean and changed my life forever. — Lyric

I have always been beguiled by birds. As if there was much they would tell me if they could, but they are only permitted to bear witness with their lives, their song.

What is the Holy Father going to do?" "Right to the end, he will keep on doing what he has been doing. We must do the same. Our task is to proclaim Jesus. We must strengthen the things that remain. It's not for us to count the numbers who listen.

A flourishing human life is the best advertisement for the gospel, and the gospel in turn empowers us to become better people.

This is the consistent witness of the New Testament: that the exalted Lord remains the crucified Jesus.20 And this one is "the true face of God."21 When this witness is neglected or forgotten, trouble follows swiftly.