Witness Quotes - Page 24

• I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

  Hosea Ballou

  Punishment, Judging, Prison

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• Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

  Liv Ullmann

  Compassion, Rights, Justice

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• It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.

  Rene Balcer

  Memories, Artist, Collective Memory

  Speech to the "Central Academy of Fine Arts" in Beijing, December 8, 2009.

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• There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Strong, Curiosity, Actors

  Anna Cora Mowatt, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1854). “Autobiography of an Actress: Or, Eight Years on the Stage”, p.220

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• The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay of clerical weight and influence.

  Peter Bayne

  Philosophical, Political, Finals

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• When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.

  Abigail McCarthy

  Friendship, Loyalty, Communication

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• If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, People, Doctrine

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, 1927.

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• In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Selfish, Party, Boys

  1989 Self-Consciousness, VI. 'On Being A Self Forever'.

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• We laugh, we cry, we work, we play, we love, we live. And then we die. ... And dead we would remain but for one Man and His mission, even Jesus of Nazareth. ... With all my heart and the fervency of my soul, I lift up my voice in testimony as a special witness and declare that God does live. Jesus is His Son, the Only Begotten of the Father in the flesh. He is our Redeemer; He is our Mediator with the Father. He it was who died on the cross to atone for our sins. He became the firstfruits of the Resurrection. Because He died, all shall live again.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

  Albert Camus

  Greatness, Echoes, Humanity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.276, Vintage

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• The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to be battered by them. It gives you access to a deep knowledge of how you would respond to things you would never, thank goodness, have been required to experience.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Book, Giving, Feelings

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• I am inexpressibly grateful that the Lord of my life has granted to me in such abundance these opportunities to take part in the life of his ecclesia and to bear witness to the Living Christ in so many places and in so many ways.

  Emil Brunner

  Grateful, Opportunity, Way

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• The way in which I know Christianity is true is first and foremost is the basis of the witness of the Holy Spirit in my heart. And this gives me self-authenticating means of knowing Christianity is true wholly apart from the evidence. And therefore, even if in some historically contingent circumstances the evidence that I have available to me should turn against Christianity, I do not think that controverts the witness of the Holy Spirit.

  William Lane Craig

  Mean, Heart, Thinking

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• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Dark, Night, Long

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• I sing, not to hear the echo repeat, a shade fainter, my song! I think of light and not of glory! Singing is my fashion of waging war and bearing witness. And if my song is the proudest of songs, it is that I sing clearly to make the day rise clear!

  Edmond Rostand

  Fashion, Song, War

  EDMOND ROSTAND (1910). “CHANTECLER PLAY IN FOUR ACTS”

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• Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.

  Irving Kristol

  Phones, Media, Lucky

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• I try to use every game as an opportunity to witness. I try to do a little signal every time I make a shot as a way to preach the message in little ways that I can.

  Stephen Curry

  Christian, Opportunity, Nba

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• Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the floor, people should know who I represent, who I believe in.

  Stephen Curry

  Christian, Believe, Opportunity

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• It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

  Steve Earle

  Execution, Victim, Members

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2004.

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• Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

  Cornel West

  Play, Roots, Bears

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I'm lucky enough to have been in the age before the internet and now during the internet. I'm grateful to be a witness to that. It's horse and buggy versus car. To see how quickly things change has given me a renewed sense of optimism. Does that make sense?

  Kathleen Hanna

  Horse, Grateful, Optimism

  Interview with Allston Pudding, allstonpudding.com. April 7, 2015.

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• Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Blessed, People, Records

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.31, David C Cook

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• You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

  Glenn Beck

  Hate, Love You, Dark

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• One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Attitude, Practice, Strange

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• Every day we bear witness to each woman's knowledge of holding the profound power to decide whether or not to allow the life within her to come to term. The sharing of those moments makes abortion work sacred.

  Merle Hoffman

  Profound, Abortion, Sacred

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