Witness Quotes

Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

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

From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.

Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.

There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house.

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

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

Why do you want to be on The Real World? Because I want everyone to witness my youth. Why? Isn't it gorgeous?

You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration. ... Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place.

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

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

I bear you my witness that the Savior is closer to us than you have any idea. He will be close to you and the powers divine will be at your side when you have nowhere else to turn.

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

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.

What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

Cathedrals are an unassailable witness to human passion. Using what demented calculation could an animal build such places? I think we know. An animal with a gorgeous genius for hope.

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me.

All Christian worship is a witness of the resurrection of Him who liveth for ever and ever. Because He lives, "now abideth faith, hope, charity."

There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

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

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.

Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith.

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay of clerical weight and influence.

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.

That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.