Quotes About Testimony

When I testified before Congress after the Hudson River landing, Congressman James Oberstar of Minnesota said, 'Safety begins in the boardroom.' That's as true in medicine as it is in aviation. It always boils down to leadership.

Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is strongly concerned. When they are involved, require corroborative evidence in exact proportion to the contravention of probability by the thing testified.

Lastly, hee bringeth for argument, the testimony of two Popes, Innocent, and Leo; and I doubt not but hee might have alledged, with as good reason, the testimonies of all the Popes almost since S. Peter: For considering the love of Power naturally implanted in mankind, whosoever were made Pope, he would be tempted to uphold the same opinion. Neverthelesse, they should therein but doe, as Innocent, and Leo did, bear witnesse of themselves, and therefore their witness should not be good.

They permitted witnesses, such witnesses as the red toddler, because they believed the witnesses all would perish too.

There are times, beloved, when God will place you in the middle of trials—a hospital stay, rejection, a financial blow. He lets you hurt as others hurt, knowing that the way you handle it will be a testimony, that your response will show others that there's something awesomely different about you.

you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either – Don Marquis ("ghosts")

Great claims were made for the healing value of the royal touch. The surgeon, Richard Wiseman, testified to having witnessed hundreds of cures, and asserted that Charles II healed more sufferers in one year 'than all the surgeons of London had done in an age'.

Notice also that those saved did not reveal everything they knew about God to unbelievers. They waited until God started a relationship with the unbelievers and revealed things to them.

Do not stop doing what God has called you to do because you do not understand what is going on. Just be a witness.

The Chaits were given everything but a European vacation [by prosecutors] for their testimony and they're just not credible," Padowitz said.

Adults need spiritual apprenticeships as much as their children do—and adults need them first. Group spiritual direction, covenant groups, practice in oral prayer, lay leadership in worship, singing hymns and praise songs—and of course, the formal practice of testimony itself—are congregational practices that give adults, and not just teenagers, opportunities to put faith into words.

Further testimony and legal documents reflected an impressive list of former business partners, including Howard Hughes cohort Robert Maheu and Texas oil magnate Clint Murchison.

1. Say it. 2. Do it. 3. Receive it. 4. Tell it.

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

New converts keep old converts alive and reminiscent of their own wonderful moments of conversion.

Young minister of God, keep that little sparkle in your eyes, and then write down how your call came to you, and when you've written it down in fire, defend it that way. When your defense is expressed in the hottest flame you can engender, only then will your definition be strong enough to last a lifetime.

We wanted - no, we needed - to tell our stories, and more importantly, we needed our stories to be heard.

Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness." "No." "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.

Scars speak for you. They say you're strong and you've survived something that might have killed others.

Men run with great avidity to give their evidence in favour of what flatters their passions and national prejudices,' David Hume told Edward Gibbon.

So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified, one proclaiming the massacre to be the work of "bestial machinery." Yet the Rape of Nanking remains an obscure incident. Unlike the atomic explosions in Japan or the Jewish holocaust in Europe, the horrors of the massacre at Nanking remain virtually unknown to people outside Asia. The massacre remains neglected in most of the historical literature published in the United States.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.

I believe there is no god but Allah alone and Muhammed is his prophet.