Quotes About Witness

Jesus, whoever now believes in this Truth can receive the remission of sins. By him having borne witness to 'the gospel of the atonement for sins,' where he passed-on all the sins of the world onto the Lord, many people have been able to received salvation from sin by believing and having faith in this Truth of salvation because of John's witness.

The single greatest cultural contribution of postmodernity is that it eliminates the presumption of intellectual neutrality that modernity automatically associated with skeptical rationalism. (...) It shows, not that truth is socially constructed, but that the uniquely human act of bearing witness to the truth is always a moral as well as an intellectual or empirical or noetic act.

God is not satisfied with you being a witness to his work of grace. He's called you to be an instrument of that grace to others.

We are called to be ambassadors of Christ. To be the look on his face, the touch of his hand, and the tone of his voice.

Straining to appear judicial, he turned toward the jury box. "The jurors shall disregard the last… uh… colloquy between the witness and defense counsel." Might as well ask the residents of Pompeii to ignore the volcano.

I have a confession to make. I hate voir dire. I despise prying into other people's lives because I wouldn't want them prying into mine.

We are creatures of the cruelties we witness.

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

What are we doing?" Riven asked. Cale answered, "We're watching." Riven turned his eye to him. "He told you to leave." Cale nodded. "It's only justice if there's a witness." "Justice isn't what he's after, Cale." Cale had not considered that.

Ray Stone sent me an e-mail from one of his friends, Nickolas Evanoff, who had seen the real thing. It reads as follows:

Children who witness violence experience many of the same ill effects as those who are directly abused.

How I can I speak God's peace to them inside the church if I act scared when I walk past them outside?

Because sometimes love just needs a witness... Somebody to testify. Sometimes love just needed somebody to step forward and say, Here I am, Spirit. Send me.

shared witness against injustice could marshal triumphs that wars never could.

admit to it in court, or certainly in a sworn statement. Even more unlikely.

Christians should be living so that sinners are attracted to them.

Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.

The body of the ponderous scholarly exegesis that began to bather around Busch in his lifetime and picked up speed after his death is witness to the humorlessness of much writing about humor.

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

When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.

and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”

He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”

So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.