Quotes About Testimony

To all questions, Rockefeller responded in this same slow, disconnected style, making his testimony worthless.

This testimony was not only a fiasco for the judge but a public-relations victory for Rockefeller.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

No jury, we knew, could convict a man on the criminal count on native evidence in a land where you can buy a murder-charge, including the corpse, all complete for fifty-four rupees

As God's lawyer I was a dead failure; as God's witness I was a success.

I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.

The strength of the church is not the strength of its institutions but the authenticity of its witness.

I think of the meaning of the word testimony. Originally it named the custom of two men holding each other's testicles in a gesture of trust, later to metamorphose into the handshake.

The voices of my friends at the Little School grew stronger in my memory. By publishing these stories I feel those voices will not pass unheard.

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

Those scars don't have to stop you. The scars are simply your story. The scars can be your testimony. You don't have to hide them. Everyone has scars.

The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

One evening I sat in on the congregation's annual meeting with its district superintendent, Alexander B. Joyner. It opened with testimony from Hoot Pruitt. "We're blessed to have our pastor, because he knows how to get people in line—not in a rough way, but in a gentle spirit," he said.

According to Smith's testimony, that of Jesus, and that of the Bible itself, Joseph Smith was visited by Satan masquerading as God and pronouncing his curse upon the Christian church and the creeds of Christendom.

Il diavolo! —dijo Clemenza—. Vinnie Suits, de Brooklyn, jura que vio a Brasi recibir una bala a quemarropa en el corazón, levantarse y salir andando como si no hubiese ocurrido nada.

Revelation 11:5 goes on to say that the two witnesses will have power to call down fire from heaven.

And the truth shall bear witness of itself. Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

I love sewing and have plenty of material witnesses.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.