Witness Quotes

• For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Holocaust, Bears

  "Elie Wiesel, Nobel winner and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 87" by Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2016.

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• I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Writing, Ideas, Evil

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  What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hurt, Pain, Bystanders

  "Courage To Care - Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust" by Carol Rittner and Sandra Meyers, NYU Press, (p. 2), 1986.

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• Every believer is a witness whether he wants to be or not.

  Donald Barnhouse

  Christian, Want, Believer

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• If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

  J. C. Ryle

  Speak, Christ, Ashamed

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.326, Letcetera Publishing

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• When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.

  Bernie Glassman

  Inspirational, Death, Buddhist

  Bernie Glassman (2013). “Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace”, p.62, Penguin

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• That which we witness, we are forever changed by, and once witnessed we can never go back.

  Angeles Arrien

  Forever, Changed

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• Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.

  David Jeremiah

  Lying, Responsibility, Privilege

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• There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Realizing, Happenings

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• Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Animal, Path

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• History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  History Of Life, Guidance, Passing

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• When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there  must be no silent witnesses.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Rights, Silent

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• Be the witness of your thoughts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Awareness

  Gautama Buddha (2017). “Zen Kittens”, p.35, Mango Media Inc.

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• Passionate worship always leads to personal witness. Always. And what that means is . . . if we’re not witnessing, there’s a problem with our worship. We’re not seeing God for who He is! We’re not realizing what He’s done! We’re not realizing the magnitude of what He’s done for our souls!

  David Platt

  Mean, Soul, Passionate

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• To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mean, Way, Walking On Water

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.29, Convergent Books

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• Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

  Quintilian

  Thousand, Conscience

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• Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.80

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• ...And you're the only one who knows.

  Billy Joel

  Good Morning, Morning Inspirational, My Love For You

  Song: And So It Goes, Album: Storm Front, 1989

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• I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

  Saint Patrick

  Perseverance, Giving, Faithful

  Saint Patrick, Saint Secundinus (Bp. in Ireland) (1953). “The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick”

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• The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Discovery, Nuts, Community

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• We need to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of Christ. We must capture the spirit of the early church. Wherever the early Christians went, they made a triumphant witness for Christ. Whether on the village streets or in the city jails, they daringly proclaimed the good news of the gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Cities, Jail

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• Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

  Dar Williams

  Forgiveness, Night, Needs

  Song: My Friends

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• We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mean, People, Advice

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• When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.

  Lily Yeh

  Family, Meaningful, Art

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• Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.

  Oscar Romero

  Mad, Upside Down, Communist

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