Quotes About Testimony

One of the most powerful things we have is to tell our story.

What saved me from the hood was Christian faith motivated by music.

Kiowa who saw it happen said it was like watching a rock fall, or a big sandbag or something-Just Boom-then down. Not like in the movies where the dead guy rolls around and does fancy spins and goes ass over teakettle-not like that. Kiowa said. The bastard just flat fuck fell. Boom down. Nothing else.

I knew that I could talk for the rest of my life about what happened to my baby, I could explain it in great detail, I could describe what I saw laid out there on that slab at A. A. Rayner's place, one piece, one inch, one body part at a time. I could do all of that and people would still not get the full impact. . . . They had to see what I had seen. The whole nation had to bear witness to this.

If you don't write it down, it never happened. Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

if you don't write it down, then it never happened

if you don't write it down—" "Then it never happened.

I had an empty heart and wish someone had told me about Jesus years ago. That's why I tell everyone about Him now. My life is in danger, but I don't care. I only want to follow my Savior and be faithful. That is my goal in life.

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ma un mio sospiro ardente fu più verace testimon del core;

In sum: the church exists to be a living exhibit of the reality of the gospel.

The true martyr/witness testifies in word and deed, life and death. This is the cost of apologetics. Cheap apologetics is the defense of Christian truth without martyrdom.

does belief that fails to issue in behavior count as genuine witness (and understanding) or not?

The gospel (and this is a theme to which we shall frequently return) is not only good but great news: testimony to God's great saving act in Jesus Christ, a doing "than which nothing greater can be conceived.

While the official church was moribund, the house churches kept alight the flame of Christian witness. The church survived as a lay movement, often led by poorly educated Bible women who memorized Scripture and passed on the faith to family members and (if they dared) to neighbors and friends.

Rocky Hawkins has written a rare, fun and beautiful book. If you don't believe me, read it for yourself.

Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good impression.

we forget that there is no victory without a battle, no testimony without a test and no miracle without an impossible circumstance.

Ço?unlukla bir kitaptan kurtulmak ona sahip olmaktan daha zordur. Kitaplar, sanki asla geri dönemeyece?imiz bir an?n tan?klar? gibi, bir ihtiyaç ve unutkanl?k anla?mas?yla tutunurlar insana.

I live alongside it. Auschwitz is there, unalterable, precise, but enveloped in the skin of memory.' (Moorehead, 2011, 316)

Looking at me, one would think that I'm alive…I'm not alive. I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it'. (Moorehead, 2011, 317)

Carolyn Forché

Praying my story gives God glory!

Every man and woman who has received the truth should live in such a manner before the Lord as to have the light of the Holy Spirit constantly beaming upon their minds. They should be in close communion through that Holy Spirit, with their God, so that if they had to stand alone in the midst of a gainsaying world they should be living witness to the truth of the Gospel and the power of God manifested in these days...having the consciousness that God was directing them in all their ways.