Quotes about Witness

If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.

All who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted" (2 Tim 3:12). So if a believer experiences no form of persecution, it may mean that he or she doesn't have a faith worth persecuting. Don't be a secret agent Christian: go public with your trust in Christ.

In sum: the church exists to be a living exhibit of the reality of the gospel.

The true martyr/witness testifies in word and deed, life and death. This is the cost of apologetics. Cheap apologetics is the defense of Christian truth without martyrdom.

The English term "martyr" comes from the Greek martys, "witness." Søren Kierkegaard defines witness as "someone who directly demonstrates the truth of the doctrine he proclaims—directly, yes, partly by its being the truth within him, … partly by his volunteering his personal self and saying: See, now, if you can force me to deny this doctrine.

does belief that fails to issue in behavior count as genuine witness (and understanding) or not?

God's idea is for us to become the Word of God, in such a way that men can read the Word by looking at our lives.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. À qui la faute? (1872)

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

At bottom, knowledge of God in faith is always this indirect knowledge of God, knowledge of God in His works, and in these particular works in the determining and using of certain creaturely realities to bear witness to the divine objectivity. What distinguishes faith from unbelief, erroneous faith and superstition is that it is content with this indirect knowledge of God.

The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.

If theology is to speak adequately of the gospel of Jesus Christ, it must be thoroughly committed to hearing "the powerful witness of the 'tremendous' Word that always speaks against us so that we can learn to stop speaking against it.