Quotes About Witness

apologists we are never out simply to establish an idea or to prove a theory. We stand as witnesses to a Person who is love, and out of our own love for him we are introducing others to being known and loved by him, so that they can know and love him in their turn. Without love, as St. Paul has told us, apologists too are only noisy gongs and clanging cymbals.

In a post-Christian era many of our friends, neighbors, and colleague will reject God for a score of reasons, but we must live and speak that they reject God for God's sake and not because of what we have said or done that has framed God wrongly.

We are spokespersons for our Lord, and advocacy is in our genes.

The Christian who is truly intimate with Jesus will never draw attention to himself but will only show the evidence of a life where Jesus is completely in control. This

Paul was not given a message or a doctrine to proclaim. He was brought into a vivid, personal, overpowering relationship with Jesus Christ. Acts 26:16 is tremendously compelling "to make you a minister and a witness." There would be nothing there without a personal relationship. Paul was devoted to a Person, not to a cause. He was absolutely Jesus Christ's.

O could I tell, you surely would believe it! O could I only say what I have seen! How should I tell or how can you receive it, How, till He bringeth you where I have been?

It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

Jesus Christ's honor is at stake in our bodily lives.

O could I tell, ye surely would believe it! O could I only say what I have seen! How should I tell or how can ye receive it, How, till He bringeth you where I have been?

No doubt the shortness of your memories is a very convenient thing for you; for without it I really don't know how you could have the conscience to repudiate your debts, swear in your witness boxes, take your marriage vows, traverse your divorce petitions, or do half the things that you do do. But, owing to the perfection of our remembrance, I can recall every trifle of the life that I then enjoyed with him.

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

Jarvis had to keep avoiding the increasing numbers of both rioters and fleeing citizens as well as a number of people in cars with the same idea. He was surprised to feel annoyed. Here was the first honest-to-goodness miracle he was witness to in his entire life as a clergyman and he wasn't able to see it because he had to keep his eyes on the road. Why were the mysteries of faith so inscrutable?

The legal aphorism is that when the law is on your side, argue the law; when the facts are on your side, argue the facts; when neither is on your side, attack the witness.)

Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one's private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to say: history - which one both participates in and is a witness to, is a part of and apart from. Everything, therefore, is present in his mind at once, as if each element were reflecting the light of all the others, and at the same time emitting its own unique and unquenchable radiance.

John the Baptist Was indeed a Messenger of God Matthew 11:11-14 bears witness to John the Baptist. Let

These Words of Jesus speaks the Truth that God put John the Baptist here as the representative of all of humankind, and also had him baptize Jesus. As Jesus was bearing witness of John the Baptist He said, "Why did you go out into the wilderness?

When Jesus walked toward John the Baptist the day after He was baptized, John the Baptist bore witness by saying to the people, "Please take a look at Him. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. You people, take a look at Him! He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." Because he had passed-on all the sins of humanity onto Jesus by the baptism, he was able to bear witness personally to the fact that Jesus was the Savior.

The Bible clearly writes and bears witness about John the Baptist of this fact.

John the Baptist who was described by Jesus like this bore witness to Jesus also by confirming, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"(John 1:29) It was John the Baptist who bore witness of Jesus by confirming, "Look! Jesus took away all the sins of the world, and He is none other than the Son of God;

After having passed-on all our sins onto Jesus, John the Baptist bore witness to this by saying

Jesus personally bore witness to the fact that John the Baptist passed-on all the sins of the world onto Him. The Words in Matthew 11:12 bear witness that the sins of the world that being, all the sins of mankind were been passed onto Jesus by John baptizing Jesus.

Because of John the Baptist witness and those who are faithful, it becomes possible for humankind to believe that the baptism Jesus received was the baptism of taking-on the sins of all humanity; and because of this, Jesus had to shed His precious blood on the Cross.

In addition, John bore witness to the fact that he had passed-on all the sins of the world by baptizing Jesus. In other words, through his witness, John the Baptist made us know about the salvation through the atonement for sins.

The second baptism was different from the first one as this was carried out when John the Baptist baptized Jesus, and this was the baptism that passed-on all the sins of the world onto the body of Jesus. John the Baptist bore witness for those who had received the baptism of repentance before God, and to believe in Jesus who had taken-on and carried the sins of the world away by His baptism.