Witness Quotes - Page 13

• One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities... and the necessity of Christian simplicity is one of their most consistent themes.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Simple, Simplicity

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.

  Sheila Walsh

  Jesus, Promise, Atonement

  Sheila Walsh (2011). “The Shelter of God's Promises”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is.

  Prem Rawat

  Ideas, Looks, Purity

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• You can leave the Church, but you can’t leave it alone. The basic reason for this is simple. Once someone has received a witness of the Spirit and accepted it, he leaves neutral ground. One loses his testimony only by listening to the promptings of the evil one, and Satan’s goal is not complete when a person leaves the Church, but when he comes out in open rebellion against it.

  Glenn L. Pace

  Simple, Evil, Goal

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• Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural events, just like today. The 9/11 hijackers believed in Paradise for martyrs, but that doesn't mean that that's true. We have no good reason to imagine that eyewitnesses wrote the gospels rather than someone simply documenting the Jesus story as it had developed within their church community.

  Robert B. Seidensticker

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

  Radhanath Swami

  Eye, Heart, Thinking

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Bears, Neurology

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy,
  since they cannot change their places,
  are witnesses of all the changes that take place around them;
  and as some reach a great age, they become, as it were, historical monuments,
  and like ourselves they have a life, growing and passing away,
  --not being inanimate and unvarying like the fields and rivers.
  One sees them passing through various stages,
  and at last step by step approaching death,
  which makes them look still more like ourselves.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Beautiful, Rivers, Tree

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• 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

  Prayer, Struggle, Character

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• The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

  Bernard Dowiyogo

  People, West, Destruction

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• I add my personal witness: Our missionaries are not salesmen with wares to peddle; rather, they are servants of the Most High God, with testimonies to bear, truths to teach, and souls to save. Each missionary who goes forth in response to a sacred call becomes a servant of the Lord whose work this truly is. Do not fear, young men, for He will be with you. He never fails. He has promised: "I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up"

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Angel, Men

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• A missionary who is inspired by the Spirit of the Lord must be led by that Spirit to choose the proper approach to be effective. We must not forget that the Lord Himself provided the Book of Mormon as His chief witness. The Book of Mormon is still our most powerful missionary tool. Let us use it.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Powerful, Book, Missionary

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

  Charles Stanley

  Christian, Powerful, Character

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• Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Freedom, Soul, Firsts

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Life Divine: Art of living”, p.257, editionNEXT.com

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• Be a witness of sex too. Don't be the controller of it. Don't try to forcibly bring it under control, remain a witness of it too. Just as you are a witness of everything else, remain a witness of sex too.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Trying, Controllers

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• While other faiths are also often oppressive, sharia law is especially oppressive. Its interpretations stipulate the execution of Muslims who commit adultery, renounce their faith (apostates) or have same-sex relationships. Sharia methods of execution, such as stoning, are particularly brutal and cruel - witness the stoning to death this week in Somalia of a 20-year-old woman divorcee who was accused of adultery. This is the fourth stoning of an adulterer in Somalia in the last year.

  Peter Tatchell

  Sex, Years, Law

  "Just say no to sharia law" by Peter Tatchell, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2009.

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• The mark of the true church is an expanding witness to the presence of God.

  Gregory Beale

  Church, Worship, Expanding

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• Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Spirituality

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• Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Meditation, Mind

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• In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished, thus making positive identification of normal sights easier and the descriptions of unusual sights more detailed. When all normal explanations had been eliminated, the witnesses could concentrate on those aspects of the experience which were most abnormal.

  Don Berliner

  Sight, Abnormal, Shapes

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• Patterns of these UFOs appearance and behavior suggest a limited range of sizes and shapes of unidentified craft, despite the often-desperate efforts on the part of the American and other governments to discount them as nothing more substantial than mistakes made by naïve individuals. Their performance, observed repeatedly by expert witnesses, remains as far off the scale today as it was in the 1940s.

  Don Berliner

  Mistake, Government, Effort

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• After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample high-quality observational evidence from highly trained and reliable lay witnesses to indicate that there are unidentified machine-like objects under intelligent control operating in our atmosphere. Such evidence in some cases is supported by anomalous physical effects upon the witnesses, electrical devices, and the environment, as well as by instrumentation such as radar and Geiger counters.

  Raymond E. Fowler

  Intelligent, Years, Atmosphere

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• Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their criminal behavior. Such behavior may not be dealt with by courts in history, but will be dealt with by God, either in history (e.g., AIDS) or eternity. The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality underground, back to the closet, to the dark realm of shameful activity.

  Gary DeMar

  Dark, Practice, Doors

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• Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America and domesticate the earth. Leading the resistance is the Buffalo Field Campaign, a brave, dedicated group of activists. This hardy tribe lives out in the cold winters of Yellowstone, risking their freedom and lives to stand by their brown brethren in the hair coats.

  Doug Peacock

  Book, Winter, Years

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• In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends. . . . Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright's very powerful story.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Girlfriend, Powerful, Stories

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