Witness Quotes - page 19

Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance of temptation, every motion of repentance, every gesture of concern, every routine engagement, every motion of worship, every struggle towards obedience, every mumbled prayer, everything, literally, which flows out of our faith-relationship with the Ever-Living One, will find its place in the ever-living heavenly order which will dawn at his coming. (Randy Alcorn)
I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it -- yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don't give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by. View quote
Orson Welles
The time has come for me to say good-bye-or better, 'arrivederci!'. World Youth Day 2011 will take place in Madrid, Spain. Until then, let us continue to pray for one another, and let us joyfully bear witness to Christ before the world. View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
The Holy Spirit! This is the Spirit's role: to bring Christ's work to fulfillment. Enriched with the Spirit's gifts, you will have the power to move beyond the piecemeal, the hollow utopia, the fleeting, to offer the consistency and certainty of Christian witness! View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
Love - caritas - is an extraordinary force which leads people to opt for courageous and generous engagement in the field of justice and peace. It is a force that has its origin in God, Eternal Love and Absolute Truth. Each person finds his good by adherence to God's plan for him, in order to realize it fully: in this plan, he finds his truth, and through adherence to this truth he becomes free (cf. Jn 8:32). To defend the truth, to articulate it with humility and conviction, and to bear witness to it in life are therefore exacting and indispensable forms of charity. Charity, in fact, "rejoices in the truth”. View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
The renunciation of marriage and family is thus to be understood in terms of this vision: I renounce what, humanly speaking, is not only the most normal but also the most important thing. I forgo bringing forth further life on the tree of life, and I live in the faith that my land is really God - and so I make it easier for others, also, to believe that there is a kingdom of heaven. I bear witness to Jesus Christ, to the Gospel, not only with words, but also with this specific mode of existence, and I place my life in this form at his disposal. View quote
Pope Benedict XVI
I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him. View quote
Margaret Cho
Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi) View quote
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Clearly, a great crime had been committed against this boy; yet nobody who had had a hand in it - the judge, the jury, the prosecutor, the complaining witness, the policemen and jailers - felt any responsibility about it, because they were not acting as men, but as officials. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it. View quote
Tim Cook
to a defendant's witness wearing torn jeans: I'm looking in your direction trying to figure out whether you accidentally tripped on your way coming into court today, or whether you selected those pants because you thought that they were attractive. (Judith Sheindlin)
after throwing the defendant and his witness out of the courtroom: I have other things to do today. I have to get home! [points to her wristwatch] JUDGE JUDY IS ON!!! [audience laughs]. View quote
Judith Sheindlin
Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us. View quote
Shane Claiborne
Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
The judge smiled. It is not necessary, he said, that the principals here be in possession of the facts concerning their case, for their acts will ultimately accommodate history with or without their understanding. But it is consistent with notions of right principle that these facts-to the extent that they can be readily made to do so-should find a repository in the witness of some third party. Sergeant Aguilar is just such a party and any slight to his office is but a secondary consideration when compared to divergences in that larger protocol enacted by the formal agenda of an absolute destiny. Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
Perhaps I did not succumb to ideology ... because I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness. View quote
James Baldwin
It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them. View quote
Ellen G. White
I love these kids. I'm just here to bear witness to their lives, because I believe that it is in bearing witness that everything is made real. View quote
Jason Reynolds
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out. View quote
Robert Fisk
We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way. (Lewis Thomas)
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days. View quote
Howard Thurman
God by God flits past in thunder, till His glories turn to shades; God to God bears wondering witness how His gospel flames and fades. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening. View quote
Anderson Cooper
"AS GOD AS MY WITNESS, HE IS BROKEN IN HALF!" (most famously uttered during the Undertaker vs Mankind match at King of the Ring 1998) View quote
Jim Ross