Witness Quotes - page 15

Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us. (Adam Hamilton)
I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential. View quote
Athol Fugard
I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time. View quote
Athol Fugard
A multi-purpose stadium is an absolute must in order to invigorate our downtown and, simultaneously, let the rest of the country witness that we can get things done. View quote
Alan Autry
Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith. View quote
Boyd K. Packer
One of the keys to ensuring accountability is to have civil servants who witness fraud, waste and abuse to blow the whistle. View quote
Byron Dorgan
His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness. View quote
Charles Stanley
Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true. View quote
David A. Bednar
The revelations of the Father and the Son are conveyed through the third member of the Godhead, even the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is the witness of and messenger for the Father and the Son. View quote
David A. Bednar
It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living. View quote
David Whyte
My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand. (Damon Wayans)
As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness. View quote
Dani Shapiro
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work. View quote
Eduardo Chillida
A writer's work is to witness things. View quote
Edward Hoagland
When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match. View quote
Gael Garcia Bernal
Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance. View quote
Henry Giroux
Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique. View quote
Jane Rule
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. View quote
Jane Rule
The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it. View quote
Janet McTeer
Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust. View quote
Jessica Hahn
I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me. (Jill Scott)
Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them. View quote
Jim Goldberg
I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share. View quote
Joe Mantello
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted. View quote
Jonathan Kozol
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics. View quote
Joseph Lancaster