Quotessence
Home / Topics / Witness Quotes

Witness Quotes

Browse 1445 quotes about Witness.

Related topics

BearsIfsPeopleWorldKnowsMenThinkingWayMindChristChristianNeedsHas BeensHumansSpiritGivingDoeMayWantFirstsKindBelieveChildrenEyeLooksYearsChurchFactsJesusSaidTryingMeanShouldStillsHeartBearing WitnessImportantSelfFeelsTwoWellsArtMeditationMomentsPersonsBodyHappensSilentStoriesPastRealReasonSufferingLordMemoriesWholeFatherHolyJehovahEarthEventsHelpingJudgingActionEndsLightLyingRememberBookEvidenceFacesHandsLongMadeMightNationsDiesLawMatterRealizingSoulSpiritualTodayWarCertainDifferentEternalLifeOpportunitySpeakTestimonyTogetherFormHeavenJesus ChristJoyLittlesMotherOrderViolencemore

Witness Quotes

“In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.”

BookLawFoundDivineHolySuicideSakeNeighborWitnessImmortalityEnjoymentPassagesPermissionEnteringForbiddenSuicidalOmissionShunningFalse Witness
Book:Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]
Create image

“We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.”

PeopleWould BeTogetherBeautifulFacesHouseConsciousnessWatchesGenerationsCreationMountainShadowStonesEmptyPraiseAgingComplexesWeatherWitnessBeachOur TimeOur GenerationBeautiful FaceEmpty HousesAbet
Author:Annie Dillard
Create image

“it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way of the farm worker has bene one of sacrifice for generations. Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. This Pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.”

MenWayWellsSufferingKnownPathRichGenerationsSacrificeBloodLandWorkersWitnessTeaFallenFarmsValleysSweatEvidentWell KnownPilgrimage
Author:Cesar Chavez
Create image

“He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.”

FirstsSaidTwoReasonHelpingSeemsChristianThreeBrainEffectsProduceOughtMethodScriptureWitnessDiscussionUpsetSarcasticStomachAgain And AgainControversyCorrectionsHereticAdmonition
Author:Tertullian
Create image

“To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character. As spirit children of our Heavenly Father, we do have the potential to incorporate Christlike attributes into our life and character. The Savior invites us to learn His gospel by living His teachings. To follow Him is to apply correct principles and then witness for ourselves the blessings that follow.”

ChildrenCharacterSpiritFatherChristPrinciplesOur LivesTeachingBlessingWitnessHeavenlySaviorAttributesInvitesHeavenly Father
Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Create image

“Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.”

MenWorldLittlesHas BeensTogetherCommonFiveGreaterCenturyMilitaryKillingWitnessFeaturesWorld HistoryFacilityOutstandingCommon ManKilling Each Other
Book:Churchill: The Power of Words
Create image

“Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same verdict. How certain thou art to die, thou knowest; how soon to die, thou knowest not. Measure not thy life with the longest; that were to piece it out with flattery. Thou canst name no living man, not the sickest, which thou art sure shall die before thee.”

MenArtChristianCertainDiesNamesPiecesJudgingBlessingUniversalChristian LifeWitnessTheeFlatterySessionJuryVerdictChastisement
Author:Thomas Adams
Create image

“I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.”

ShouldTryingMayMeanMatterTruthLastsPastScienceNightJudgingProveDetermineExperimentsObservationWitnessPeterPersistLast NightInjuredTransient
Author:Galileo Galilei
Create image

“Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive existences, whilst the historian of man is constantly at fault as to dates and even the sequence of events, to say nothing of the contradicting statements which he is forced to reconcile.”

MenScienceExistenceEventsFaultsStatementsWitnessHistorianFossilsSequenceReconcileBurialContradictingSequence Of Events
Author:Roderick Murchison
Create image

“Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.”

ThinkingIdeasReasonCharacterScienceCertainNatureNaturalDarkViewsPathProgressCenturyInformationJudgingMastersRevolutionFitApproachWitnessLengthReceivingProposePupilsNatural Science
Book:Critique of pure reason
Create image

“When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.”

LooksUsedPurposePowerGraceVictoryDefeatSignificantChosenWitnessTriumphSufficientFrustrationHelplessnessGod's GraceImprisonmentPowerlessness
Author:Charles Caleb Colton
Create image

“You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and also this void. In the story of the tenth man, when each of them counted and thought they were only nine, each one forgetting to count himself, there is a stage when they think one is missing and do not know who it is; and that corresponds to the void. We are so accustomed to the notion that all that we see around us is permanent and that we are this body, that when all this ceases to exist we imagine and fear that we also have ceased to exist.”

ThinkingKnowsMenStoriesBodyPastThreeForgetImagineStageMissingQuietNotionNineCeaseWitnessPermanentSubtleVoidAccustomedThree TimesGrossPast PresentPast Present And FutureTimes Past
Author:Ramana Maharshi
Create image

“Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness. And second: follow the law, follow the natural course. Don't be unnatural, don't try to fight with nature - stop being a fighter. Learn how to relax with nature, learn to let go. Flow with nature, allow nature to possess you totally.”

TryingMindTwoLawFightingCoursesProcessNaturalWatchesMeditationBecomingLetting GoFlowFighterWitnessTwo ThingsRelaxSpectatorsUnnaturalThought ProcessLearn To Let Go
Author:Rajneesh
Create image

“If we will be true and faithful to our principles, committed to a life of honesty and integrity, then no king or contest or fiery furnace will be able to compromise us. For the success of the kingdom of God on earth, may we stand as witnesses for Him "at all times and in all things, and in all places that we may be in, even until death."”

IfsMayAbleEarthFaithPrinciplesHonestyKingsIntegrityAll ThingsCommittedKingdomsBeing TrueCompromiseAll TimeWitnessFaithfulContestsKingdom Of GodFieryFurnacesHonesty And Integrity
Author:Howard W. Hunter
Create image

“His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.”

FirstsLittlesBookScienceChanceViewsKnowledgeKnowingLearningTheoryAmountLaborMiracleMethodBlindInstinctSorryExtremesSavedPracticalsWitnessMathematicalAccomplishmentCoveredContemptCentsImmenseInventorCalculationsDoingsProdigiousBook Learning
Author:Nikola Tesla
Create image

“Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only, and by means of the electric light projected on a screen, that we may witness physical phenomena, but that we may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.”

MayMeanDifferentMatterLightScienceFoundGamesWaterRoomsAirSeaLandHighestAspectAccountsStormScreensDoctrineWitnessElectricLecturesGymnasticsIllustrationElectric Light
Book:The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell
Create image

“Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .”

PeopleKnowsChildrenMotivationalLastsNightPoorPovertyStreetsBedRaisesUnionsCleanWitnessWelfareHotelContractsBusPoor PeopleLast NightVansCab
Author:Jesse Jackson
Create image

“For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.”

ShouldActionPastMotherCausesInterestPathExampleOughtHatredAffectionWitnessHistorianInstructionTruthfulPreciseRivalsSwerve
Author:Miguel de Cervantes
Create image

“The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of his own descendants; and the poor man who concurs in a provision for those who are not poor that at no distant day it may be enjoyed by descendants from himself. It does not require a long life to witness these vicissitudes of fortune.”

MenMayLongDoePoorEducationRichPlansOughtFortuneWitnessEnjoyedPermanentProvidingLong LifeProvisionContributingRich ManPoor ManDescendantsVicissitudesConcur
Book:The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison
Create image

“Their example testifies that Baptism commits Christians to participating courageously in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, if need be cooperating with the sacrifice of life itself... This martyrdom of ordinary life constitutes a particularly important witness in the secularized society of our time. It is the peaceful battle of love which every Christian, like Paul, must fight without flagging: the race to spread the Gospel that involves us until our death. May the Virgin Mary, Queen of Martyrs and Star of Evangelization, help us in our daily witness.”

IfsGivingMayImportantFactsHelpingChristianLife IsFightingStarsRaceSacrificeExampleBattleOrdinarySpreadCommitKingdomsPeacefulWitnessQueensOur TimeMaryMartyrKingdom Of GodBaptismOrdinary LifeMartyrdomCooperating
Author:Pope Benedict XVI
Create image

“Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Thus I am certain that, were He among us today, Christ would encourage scientific research as modern man's most noble striving to comprehend and admire His Father's handiwork. The universe as revealed through scientific inquiry is the living witness that God has indeed been at work.”

KnowsMenSaidTodayCertainUniverseFatherChristAtheismModernResearchStriveNobleAdmireWitnessInquiryScientific ResearchModern ManHandiwork
Author:Wernher von Braun
Create image

“Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.”

MenWorldLongDoeRealSoulStatesBeautifulSpiritualDesireAnimalExistenceStudyMeditationObjectsHe ManHighestIntellectSensesWitnessContemplationEnjoymentContemplativeManifoldReal HappinessSublimityPanorama
Book:Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature
Create image

“Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know it is to know it from within, from your witnessing self. The more you become aware, the more you can watch your mind - its subtle functioning. The functioning is tremendously complex and beautiful. Mind is the most complex phenomenon on the earth, the most subtle flowering of consciousness. If you want to really understand what the mind is, then you will have to detach yourself from your mind, and you will have to learn how to be just a witness. That's what meditation is all about.”

IfsKnowsWayWantMindSelfHandsEarthBeautifulForceConsciousnessWatchesMeditationTestsComplexesWitnessSubtlePhenomenonElusiveTubesFloweringBeautiful Mind
Author:Rajneesh
Create image

“There is a difference. You watch television, you don't witness it. But, while watching television, if you start witnessing yourself watching television, then there are two processes going on: you are watching television, and something within you is witnessing the process of watching television. Witnessing is deeper, far deeper. It is not equivalent to watching. Watching is superficial. So remember that meditation is witnessing.”

IfsTwoRememberProcessDifferencesWatchesMeditationTelevisionDeeperWitnessWithin YouSuperficialWatching Television
Author:Rajneesh
Create image

“Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not. Meditation is the experience: "I am not my body, not my mind - I am the witness of it all." This experience, this transcendental experience, immensely transforms the whole situation. Many things which were driving you crazy simply drop away.”

IfsMindMeanWholeBodyConsciousnessSituationMeditationCrazyDisciplineCapableMachinesSickDrivingWitnessDetachedTranscendentalAloofGoing Crazy
Author:Rajneesh
Create image

“It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the mind, it can be put aside. One can become disidentified with the mind. To know "I am not the mind," is real purity because then you are only consciousness, awareness, a witnessing. To live twenty-four hours a day as a witness is the way of the sannyasin.”

KnowsWayNeedsMindMeanRealHoursConsciousnessFourMeditationAwarenessTwentiesWitnessPurityJumping
Author:Rajneesh
Create image

“In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on that lid a long time, trying continuously to hold down everything beneath it. To become a witness means that you have finally jumped off the lid; now you will only stand aside and will not do anything. Now you will no longer repress, now you will just witness. So everything suppressed will arise, all the repressions will catch fire; you will find flames leaping where there were only ashes.”

TryingMeanLongHas BeensHappensFireMeditationLong TimeSittingBoundsAriseWitnessFlamesRidingAshesRepression
Author:Rajneesh
Create image

“Because of watching your breath and thoughts you have come to know now that you are neither thoughts nor your breath, you are the watcher, the witness. This is awareness. This is what I call meditation. Once you have known this awareness you are unidentified with your body, with your mind. Now you experience a vastness inside you, in one sense utterly empty and in another sense overflowingly full. Because of its emptiness you will remain calm and quiet. And because of its overflowing fullness you will be creative.”

KnowsMindBodyKnownCreativeMeditationAwarenessQuietEmptyBreathsCalmYour BodyWitnessEmptinessCall MeBe CreativeFullnessVastnessWatchers
Author:Rajneesh
Create image

“Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune with your being, you know the way, you know the how. Then it does not matter where you are. Alone or in the crowd, in the silences of the forest or in the noises of a marketplace, it is all the same. You can simply close your eyes and disappear inwards.”

KnowsWayMindDoeMatterEyeSilenceTeachMeditationHappeningsCrowdsDisappearForestsNoiseWitnessTunesWhere You AreMarketplace
Author:Rajneesh
Create image

“The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature - only the current target of the serial bully's aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as "charming" and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as "evil"; Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act.”

WantBelievePersonsRealEnoughEvilIndividualSidesFrontsManagementCurrentsInnocentWitnessTargetBullyingAggressionDeceivingCharmingBoth SidesBullyViciousConvincingTwo SidesDark SideSerialsMean PeopleReal PersonPersonnelVindictiveTribunalsAnti BullyingHydeJekyllVindictivenessJekyll And Hyde
Author:Tim Field
Create image

“The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we must impeach all those witnesses for lying. If Christ has not risen, we have no proof that the crucifixion of Jesus differed from that of the two thieves who suffered with him. If Christ has not risen, it is impossible to believe his atoning death was accepted.”

IfsBelieveTwoLyingJesusChristImpossibleProofAcceptedWitnessResurrectionThievesEasterRisenCrucifixionArchesKeystones
Author:Dwight L. Moody
Create image