Witness Quotes - Page 19

• The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Faithful, Church

  J. I. Packer (2001). “Concise Theology: A Guide to Historic Christian Beliefs”, p.194, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer is a gift of God, it is also an art learned through constant practice. Jesus teaches us to pray constantly, but also to bear witness before others of the beauty of prayer, self-surrender and complete openness to God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Art, Prayer

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• The blood of our Christian brothers is a witness that cries out..If they are Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it is not important : They are Christians. The blood is the same: It is the blood which confesses Christ.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Brother, Blood

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• It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Math, Punishment, Coarse

  "A Journey to Sakhalin". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• Yes. I didn't think there were any witnesses, so I guess I'll have to kill you too.

  Jake Johannsen

  Food, Thinking

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• I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain.

  Lee Friedlander

  Wall, Silly, Simple

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• Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

  Peter Zumthor

  Past, Quality, Body

  Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”

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• My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted in hopefulness. As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Believe, Struggle

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.14, Routledge

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• One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their proclaimed ambition is praiseworthy. Their capacity to achieve is great. But their discipline is weak. They succumb to indolence. Appetite robs them of will.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Ambition, Men, Discipline

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• There are two kinds of witnesses. One kind is the people that surround you. You are constantly aware that you are being watched, witnessed. With so many eyes watching you, you are reduced to an object... And you are afraid because they may not appreciate you. They may not feed your ego, they may not like you, they may reject you. Now you are in their hands.

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Two, Hands

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• Witness the witness itself - and... the ultimate ecstasy is created. Start watching your thoughts but don't stop there... One more thing has to be done, one more step: now watch the watcher... Nothing else is left, only you are. By watching the mind, the mind disappears. By watching the witness, the witness expands and becomes universal.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Steps, Watches

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• As God is my witness, he is broken in half!

  Jim Ross

  Wwe, Broken, Half

  "Kevin Owens interview: WWE star says Hell in a Cell is 'daunting'". www.skysports.com. October 26, 2016.

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• It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Ragtime, Existence, Humans

  E.L. Doctorow (2013). “Ragtime, The March, and Homer & Langley: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.74, Random House

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• In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell

  Strobe Talbott

  May, Empires, Putin

  "The Great Debate In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire’s death knell". blogs.reuters.com. December 16, 2014.

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• Because we love the Lord, we should be spiritually sensitive to moments when the powerful and important truths of the gospel can be shared with others. Perhaps more importantly, however, we should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do. Our day-to-day lives should stand as immutable witness of our faith in Christ.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Powerful, Light, Important

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• If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.

  Wen Jiabao

  Country, Hands, Wealth

  "Interview with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao". "The Fareed Zakaria GPS Show", www.cnn.com. September 29, 2008.

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• There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

  Robert Breault

  Self, Waiting, Quiet

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• President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Rights, Voting, President

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• Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Hands, Looks, Mould

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]

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• As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

  Dani Shapiro

  Jobs, Imagine

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• How oft, - be witness, Guardian of our days!... The sky besprinkled o'er with rainbow hues, As if angelic wings had wanton'd there.

  Robert Montgomery

  Sky, Wings, Rainbow

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.87

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• Allah is my witness. I will not be silent. I will never surrender.

  Anwar Ibrahim

  Surrender, Silent, Never Surrender

  Twitter post from Feb 9, 2015

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• Today I was in the gym benching 400 pounds. A-Ry is my witness to this.

  The Miz

  Wwe, Today, Pounds

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• This wasn't because he liked me, I was sure. It had more to do with him banking on what we of wedding age had all become witnesses to-how during these wedding weekends, single women, feeling a little lonely, maybe, or just feeling a little too far from being the bride, found themselves loosening their own rules, opting to be more flexible, more quickly.

  Laura Dave

  Lonely, Weekend, Feelings

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• America's egalitarian mandate reflects the liberality of the creator, and thus countermands, by divine witness, all feudal and aristocratic structures. It also parallels the Jewish concept of repair the world, or Tikkun ha'olam, which holds that the human spirit is in partnership with God to help finish the work of creation.

  Forrest Church

  America, World, Spirit

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