Quotes about testimony

It is impossible to read this opening paragraph without an involuntary feeling of religious awe it breathed the very savor of Gospel antiquity. The sincerity of the author heightens his power of language.

My grandma loved to be on stage entertaining people.  She loves to make people smile and laugh.  She loves to brighten other people's day.  She often calls perfect strangers her angel, as a way of witnessing, but also to encourage and build their self-esteem.

If my children think I'm genuine, no one else's opinion matters to me.

Shall we accept the testimony of a man, yet reject the Truth of God.

We can only testify about what we have seen: the signs and wonders of God. So that others may desire to seek the Holy One.

The Truth is true testimony of God.

The only true testimony is the Truth of God.

If it's not for Him, I guess I'd be dead few years ago.

You don't need my testimony to know God is Good. I pray u have a testimony for yourself.

We testify about wonders of Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin

What do we advertise about You by how we serve? Do we reflect the belief shown in Jesus’ parable that You are a hard master taking what isn’t Yours? Forgive us for even brief lapses into such churlishness. Or, do we reflect a joy in serving that radiates from an intimate and time-tested knowledge of the goodness of the One we serve? Paul and Daniel were confident of this sovereign goodness even when they were prisoners rather than courtiers, and we can likewise tap into a joy that defies circums

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

Listening to Don Moen's songs always reminds me of my darkest momentsThen I was always listening to them and crying, locking myself alone in the room, shedding tears, questioning God, singing along with Don MoenBut today, whenever I listen to the songs, I always smile.Indeed, God never sleeps, He never slumbers

If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band?

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

If you are possessed by the desire to be useful for God on this earth, He will honor you, you will prosper and your life will be a testimony of success

In tough and desperate times when your creativity begs to be birthed, loose the confines of the ground; stand up in your faith and walk atop the waves…

Tell your testimony.

The word of God is a testimony of warning.

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned

When you lack the courage to publicly defend biblical truth, it is a clear testimony that you lack the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit is a gift of no fear.

I was very timid, and bound as with chains in a man-fearing spirit. When I arose to testify I trembled like a leaf, and began to make excuses - O God, send someone else! Then the Lord in a vision caused me to see the bottomless pit open in all its horror and woe. There was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. It was surrounded by a great multitude of people who seemed unconscious of their danger, and without a moments warning they would tumble into this awful place. I was above the people

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

The scene is France. The theater is the world.

The adult author finds that by inadvertently violating the school's alcohol policy, she breaks down some part of the barrier between her and the younger students who are subject to more rules.

I urge new converts to take plenty of time in Bible study and prayer before getting on a public platform to testify.

The unbelieving world should see our testimony lived out daily because it just may point them to the Savior.

The greatest testimony to this dark world today would be a band of crucified and risen men and women, dead to sin and alive unto God, bearing in their bodies “the marks of the Lord Jesus” [Galatians 6:17 NKJV].

The devil will try to discourage you, to divert you; he will seek to dilute your testimony; he will attempt anything to destroy your relationship to Christ and your influence upon others.

Our creativity, our inner sense of right and wrong, our ability to love and to reason—all bear witness to the fact that God created us in His image. The Bible says God “has not left himself without testimony” [Acts 14:17 NIV].

You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Memoir writing draws on all aspects of who we are, body, mind and soul. We are challenged to dig deep, to remember, and once again inhabit the skin of who we were and what we have learned. Writing memoir is an act of testimony, witnessing, healing. When you write a memoir, you draw upon layers of your consciousness and discover your true nature, your essential self, and are transformed the process.” Linda Joy Meyer

Don’t water your testimony with your righteous expectations of church members. Their imperfection will disappoint you every time and cause you to leave every church you try to join.

To think because you have been “saved” that you are now sane is insanity. God doesn’t fix the mind. He only gives you opportunities to have moments of clarity. It is your job to climb the mountain and see above the clouds for yourself, not to believe the congregation's interpretation of the view.

Jason (Elam, a Christian) is the kid in high school who gets along equally well with the jocks, the brains, the geeks, and the slackers, and influences their behavior.

When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.

In the Salem of our peaceful hearts, the name of Jesus is great beyond compare: He has won our love, and He shall wear it.

If a brokenhearted mother could sing, I could not remain silent.

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted.

There is but one path of safety to the Latter-day Saints, and that is the path of duty. It is not testimony, it is not marvelous manifestations, it is not knowing that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true, . . . it is not actually knowing that the Savior is the Redeemer, and that Joseph Smith was His prophet, that will save you and me, but it is the keeping of the commandments of God, the living the life of a Latter-day Saint. [Heber J. Grant, Improvement Era, November 1936, p. 659] Quoted in “Wai

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

God's glory is most majestically displayed not through you were through me, but through US. God raises up the Church, and says to all Creation in the heavens, on the Earth, and under the Earth, this is the bride and body of My Son, bought and purchased by His blood to be My people and receive My power, and enjoy My presence, and declare My praise forever and ever.

God grows the Church through holiness in Christians.

Remember, today's challenges are tomorrow's testimonies.

I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

If somebody in your life doesn't think you are a fanatic, you are probably backslidden.

We testify about wonders of the Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Your fear ain’t nothin but gum on the bottom of your shoe. The residue from some past experience is all it is. You can scrape the gum off or it can serve as a reminder of your testimony of survival.

Sometimes, how a person answers a question is more important than what they actually say.

Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

I have to set an example, now more than ever. Facing death is the ultimate test of character. – Cmdr. William Riker

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them out. It is true that I have not fulfilled one thousandth part of them [Christian precepts], and I am ashamed of this, but I have failed to fulfill them not because I did not wish to, but because I was unable to. Teach me how to escape from the net of temptations that surrounds me, help me and I will fulfill the

Weak hearts will be strengthened, and drooping saints will be revived as they listen to our "songs of deliverance." Their doubts and fears will be rebuked, as we teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.

We cannot all write like Lincoln or Shakespeare, but even the least gifted of us has the incredible instrument, our voice, to communicate the range of human emotions. Why would we deprive ourselves of that?

Be the hero of your own story. You are born to turn you mess into a message and the test into a testimony.

The old adage that ‘there are two sides to every story’ is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.

Have you ever read a wonderful quote that you want to post on your twitter/facebook/blog/whatever but you feel like it may come off as “not Christian enough” or just a little theologically lacking?

I would love to continue to be someone that is positive but also be someone that is objective,

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours.

In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK "was drawing strength from his vulnerability.

I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.– Ali

Underestimation has its uses.

You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

Tim Tebow's Dad turned a screw-up into a testimony when a fire to burn weeds in a field got out of control. With his family still smelling like smoke from containing the fire, he conducted a lesson from verses where James compares danger of speech to an out-of-control spark.

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.

The smell of cars' smokeas I wade through trafficovershadows the freshfragrance of Mother Earthdrenched in rain. There canbe no greater testimony to man's progress

How well you cross a storm of life determines your testimony about it