Witness Quotes - Page 15

• The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

  Henri de Lubac

  Being Real, Age, Classic

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• The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place. What we see and how we interpret it depends entirely upon our individual past experience.

  David Eddings

  Wisdom, Past, People

  David Eddings, Leigh Eddings (1997). “Polgara the Sorceress”, Del Rey

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• A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.

  Clifford Irving

  Drama, Confused, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God

  Abraham Kuyper

  Passion, Home, School

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• It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

  Ralph Steadman

  Our World, World, Wretched

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• The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Despair, Doe, Answers

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.117, Penguin

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• We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

  Harriet McBryde Johnson

  Suffering, Needs, Bears

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• As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness – to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the horrors of political inaction... The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

  James Orbinski

  Reality, Doctors, Speaks Out

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• Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.

  Pema Chodron

  Emotional, Down And, Way

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to arise without closing around it, without eliminating the pure witness of being. It is an active receptivity to life.

  Stephen Levine

  Attachment, Feelings, Mind

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.51, Anchor

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• Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Honest, Workplace

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.137, SPCK

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• We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth.

  Pope Francis

  Order, Giving, Church

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.145, SPCK

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• Keep always in mind the rule of faith which I profess and by which I bear witness that the Father and the Son and the Spirit are inseparable from each other, and then you will understand what is meant by it. Observe now that I say the Father is other [distinct], the Son is other, and the Spirit is other. This statement is wrongly understood by every uneducated or perversely disposed individual, as if it meant diversity and implied by that diversity a separation of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

  Tertullian

  Father, Son, Diversity

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• Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Writing, Long, People

  Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.3, Allen & Unwin

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• “When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.” Focusing on serving our brothers and sisters can guide us to make divine decisions in our daily lives and prepares us to value and love what the Lord loves. In so doing, we witness by our very lives that we are His disciples. When we are engaged in His work, we feel His Spirit with us. We grow in testimony, faith, trust, and love.

  Ronald A. Rasband

  Brother, Decision, And Love

  "The Joyful Burden of Discipleship". Ronald A. Rasband's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2014.

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• A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Facts

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.5, Regnery Publishing

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• It is my hope that everyone's valiant efforts will have a ripple effect that will carry us forth into a fairer future. 'The arc of the moral universe is long,' said Martin Luther King Jr., 'but it bends toward justice.' And because I have been witness to so many people who lent their support to this good cause, I am lifted up by them -- lifted up so high that I can see the end of that arc.

  Prince Gomolvilas

  Kings, Justice, Long

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• The holy men and women, whose lives are told throughout this book, witness to the fact that the word of God is alive and has the power to transform us. By discovering these saints, readers will learn how to embody Scripture, letting it enlarge their hearts and mold their lives into the image of Christ.

  Stephen J. Binz

  Book, Heart, Men

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• This is how women self-sabotage and self-destruct. Unless we have constant witnesses to our hard work, we are convinced we pull off every day of our lives through smoke and mirrors. (27)

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Hard Work, Mirrors, Self

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• It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people who believe that, since morality is relative, they have no sins to forgive.

  Gene Veith

  Believe, People, Forgiving

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• Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

  William Hamilton Maxwell

  Execution, Billing

  William Hamilton MAXWELL (1856). “Stories of Waterloo. By W. H. Maxwell”, p.8

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• I witness that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. He suffered and died for our sins and rose the third day. He is resurrected. In a future day, every knee will bow and every tongue confess that He is the Christ. On that day, our concern will not be, 'Do others consider me Christian?' At that time, our eyes will be fixed on Him, and our souls will be riveted on the question, 'What thinks Christ of me?'

  Neil L. Andersen

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

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• We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else.

  Deepak Chopra

  Silence, Mind, Negative

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• Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Limits, Silent, Abandon

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• I have talked with people that have no assurance of sins forgiven. They want to feel saved before they're willing to commit themselves to Christ. But I believe that the only ones whom God actually witnesses by His Spirit are born of Him, are the people whether they say it or not, that come to Jesus Christ and say something like this: 'Lord Jesus, I'm gonna obey You and love You and serve You and do what You want me to do as long as I live even if I go to hell at the end of the road simply because You are worthy to be loved, obeyed and served. And I'm not trying to make a deal with You.'

  Paris Reidhead

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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