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“Grief is visceral, not reasonable: the howling at the center of grief is raw and real. It is love in its most wild form.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

“So what can we really do for each other except--just love each other and be each other's witness? And haven't we got the right to hope--for more? So that we can really stretch into whoever we really are?”
― James Baldwin, Another Country

“How thoughtful of you to delay the hour of your death so that I might witness it firsthand,�� she said coldly.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves

“What we need to remember -- as a working practice -- is to honor all griefs. Honor all losses, small and not small. Life changing and moment changing. And then, not to compare them. That all people experience pain is not medicine for anything.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

“Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.”
― Howard Thurman, Deep Is the Hunger

“By simply stating the truth, we open conversations about grief, which are really conversations about love. We start to love one another better. We begin to overhaul the falsely redemptive storyline that has us, as a culture and as individuals, insist that there's a happy ending everywhere if only we look hard enough. We stop blaming each other for our pain, and instead, work together to change what can be changed, and withstand what can't be fixed. We get more comfortable with hearing the truth, even when the truth breaks our hearts.”
― Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

“Because hate doesn't just touch the intended target, it spreads to every person who witnesses it.”
― Sara Farizan, Here to Stay

“I will never know, because I will never be able to be in the position to witness those things. And I don't care to know something I myself cannot confirm. No one should care about this.”
― Maria Karvouni

“The eye you see is not an eye because you see it;
it is an eye because it sees you.”
― Antonio Machado, Times Alone: Selected Poems

“Man is seldom content to witness beauty.
He must possess it.”
― Michael Somare

“one of the worst things is when witnesses start talking to each other. As soon as you start talking to someone else, the story you have in your head changes. Human memory is rewritten like computer memory. You just get
the most updated file.”
― Maureen Johnson, Truly, Devious

“We live in the world with you. We do not forsake forum or bath or workshop, or inn, or market, or any other place of commerce. We sail with you, fight with you, farm with you.”
― Tertullian, Tertullian: Apology, De Spectaculis, And, Minucius Felix

“Eternity is never having to show up because there was never a time that you were not there. And because this is the nature of God, it’s not about asking Him to show up in our lives. Rather, it’s about asking Him to shine through our lives.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Because we convince ourselves that people won’t accept our testimony about God’s work in our lives, we’re not usually ready to share it. We might prejudge their reactions or simply lack confidence. Soon, staying silent becomes a way of life. We become accustomed to the monotony and forget our calling in the world...We are called to action. Verbalizing, with humility, what God has done for us is an important part of faith. We shouldn’t shy away from it or doubt that He will use it to bring others to Himself. This should bring us to a place of confidence and humility. And it should compel us to speak.”
― Rebecca Van Noord, Connect the Testaments: A 365-Day Devotional with Bible Reading Plan

“When she looks up again, she sees something incomprehensible. An animal has come out of the forest on two legs. It's walking on the logging road, bent and stumbling. A tiny figure covered in dirt, blood and clay.
Pia holds her breath. It isn't an animal after all. It's almost as if a part of the forest has freed itself and come alive. As if it's a little girl made from twigs.”
― Lars Kepler

“A judicial system is corrupt if truth is denied the right to be a witness.”
― Suzy Kassem

“The necessary consequence of this life of the Christian in hope is that he learns to consider the present earthly life as a journey, a pilgrimage, something necessary for the sake
of the end but which does not have any independent value or attraction in itself. This is a thought which pervades and colours the entire epistle. Peter in the very opening words addresses the readers as sojourners of the dispersion �� two terms which strikingly express that they are away from home, a colony with regard to heaven, scattered in a strange world as truly as the scattered Jews were a diaspora to the holy land and Jerusalem. He tells them to gird up the loins of their minds as befits a traveller journeying through. And again he says: ‘Pass the time of your sojourning in fear�� (1:17). Once more: ‘Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which
war against the soul�� (2:11). Without a certain detachment from this world, other-worldliness is not possible. Hope cannot flourish where the heart is in the present life.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Grace and Glory

“Witness calls for withness, the complete opposite of detached observation... To receive the witness of another is to enter into a vision that isn't accessible to us in isolation; we realize ourselves as members of one another and feel compelled to act accordingly, finding that we can't easily live with ourselves if we don't.”
― David Dark, Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious

“Capitol Hill testimony represents the most important business meeting you’re ever going to have.”
― Ed Barks

“Slowly, tears began to tip over again from her swollen eyelids, leaving sad, pale trails in her ruined makeup, and as always when he made a witness cry, James felt uncomfortably like the school bully.”
― Dal Maclean, Bitter Legacy

“বাংলাদেশের কোর্টগুলোত�� আসাম�� �� সাক্ষীদেরক�� জেরা�� সম�� কাঠগড়া�� ভেতর�� চেয়া�� রাখা উচিত যে�� তারা বস�� তাদে�� বক্তব্�� দিতে পারে��!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“There should be chairs inside the witness boxes in the Bangladeshi courts so that the accused and the witnesses can sit and answer the questions asked by the lawyers!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“I was sickened by what I witnessed when I went through the corporate government disability system.”
― Steven Magee

“I’ll tell you also other things, so as to teach you knowledge.
Such as; if a quarrel breaks out,do not approach the contenders!
If you are chided and don’t know how to repel the heat, call the listeners to witness and delay the answer.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Grief is intensely personal, which makes it difficult to express, difficult to share, and often difficult to witness in others.”
― Ardy Kelly, The Cub Club

“I have the ability to rise even after my death, you can witness it if you are alive after my death”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“This reassurance that we only want to witness and acknowledge what is happening may be the essential stance that deepens safety.

When we have no intention of being an active agent of change, the feeling of possible coercion seems to leave the relationship.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“My disability judge brought an expert witness to the court that clearly stated under oath that there was no job that I could do in the national economy. As such, I was very surprised to be denied my disability benefits.”
― Steven Magee

“And of ancient paganism Paul already summed up the whole sad story in the double statement that it was without hope and without God in the world (Eph. 2:12), an exile from what is the noblest birthright of humanity. Now if this is so, how imperative becomes the duty of every true believer in the present age to cultivate the grace of hope; to make himself remember and to make others feel, not so much by direct
affirmation but rather by the tone of life, that the future belongs to us and that we belong to the future; that we are children of the world to come and that even now we allow that world to mould and rule and transform us in our thoughts, desires and feelings. If we could only learn again what Peter calls ‘to hope perfectly�� (1:13), what a witness of the reality of the Christian religion, what a powerfully attractive influence might proceed from this one manifestation of our spiritual life! People without such hope would feel the difference between themselves and us, and their regret at not having it might in many instances offer the first inducement to regain an interest in Christianity and inquire about it.”
― Geerhardus Vos, Grace and Glory

“Single truth lies - especially when there's no other lies to purify it.”
― Kangoma Kindembo