Quotes About Testimony

But you know, everybody who survived has an extraordinary story. Otherwise, he'd be dead.

no one would be happier than Luther to be commended by the testimony of the time that he had been neither slack nor deceitful in maintaining the course of truth, but had shown quite enough and even too much vehemence.

For what harm can come to you even if the world is most hostile to you, persecutes and torments you? You still know that you have Christ the Lord as your Friend, and not only Him but also the Father, who assures you and testifies through the mouth of His Son that He loves and cherishes you because of your faith in Christ, and your confession of Him. Now, since you have this Lord on your side, together with all the angels and saints, why should you worry about or fear the world's ire?

This is reported by Josephus, The Wars of the Jews, Book VI, pars. 28–30.

Hogyan merészeltek bizonyságot mondani minden fölött, amirÅ'l csak beszéltek, mintha nem is lehetne szavaitokban tévedés?!

What did Jesus say to you? Thomas said to them: If I tell you one of the words which he said to me, you will take up stones (and) throw them at me; and a fire will come out of the stones (and) burn you up. [Gospel of Thomas - 13]

It's dangerous, but it's a place full of the majesty of creation, too. It's a shining testimony to God.

Jesus wastes none of our stories, even our tales of woe. He transforms them into epic adventures where we dare to face our past for the sake of our present.

But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works. Psalm 73:21–28 NASB

Write it down, he had told me. Write down every word once you get there, Before the truth is forgotten. And now we do, at least the parts we remember. —Greyson Ballenger, 14

It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Others said it was more like five thousand. Eyewitnesses

I figured I'd duck out....before Goody Osbourne took the stand.

felt a prickle at the special horror of being not only ill but also marginalized—your testimony dismissed because your lab work fails to match a preexisting pattern.

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

If no voice speaks up for us, may the stones of this city testify on our behalf, this city whose prosperity owes so much to the efforts of the Jews, this city where so many institutions attest to the communal spirit of the Jews, this city where relations between Jews and non-Jews have always been exceptionally close.

Even the kindest men in the church had no idea of the many ways in which they made their wives and daughters into lesser persons than their sons and fellow male church members. 'I wouldn't be where I am today without my wife,' they say in testimony meetings. But what they are also saying is that their wives have given up their personal ambitions in favor of the ambitions of their husbands. Mormon men protect their daughters, but they encourage and cheer on their sons.

driven conversation, no matter how small the participation, may destroy the testimony of a life. Listening to grumbling and ungodly attitudes eventually contaminates the spirit. The more we allow discontent to be taken in by our spirits, the greater the tendency to compromise our own speech patterns. We are being called to a high standard of living where the rewards for our faithfulness are eternal.

At this point my mind recalls something I read a while back and opens a note somewhere in my brain. The memory says "Epstein wife killed." It happened sometime after his testimony appearance.

Then why aren't the crowds knocking down our doors for the bread of life? (It may be happening in other parts of the world, but it is certainly not the norm in the United States.) Why aren't they flocking to us for the only real antidote? It's because we don't have the goods! On top of that, we haven't convinced the world that it is sick, starving, and on the verge of eternal death.

For those familiar with the work, it is no surprise that the testimony includes that of Pelagia Lewinska, from her memoir Twenty Months in Auschwitz, when she describes her first awareness of the Nazi intent and remarked that she "felt under orders to live" (Lewinska, 41ff., 50).

My mind on this subject is quite made up, and, having the testimony of my own senses to rely upon, I prefer to abide by it.

Polycarp replied, "For eighty-six years I have been his servant, and he has done me no wrong. How can I blaspheme my King who saved me?