#witness

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians. ↗

— William Blake

#assumed #benefits #christians #exclusively #god

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#extraordinary #heartbreaking #just #magnitude #most

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#ask #bear #derives #expectation #fact

Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#career #first #influence #lived #peter

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#his #into #leads #timid #us

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#desperately #how #just #makes #me

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#century #countryside #dumped #engage #european

You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#missing-out #new-york-city #witnessing-history #new-york-city

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#contexts #historical #legal #limited #philosophical

It's nice to witness these discoveries at first hand. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#first #hand #nice #these #witness