witness

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.

Hey, ghosts are nothing to laugh at! Whether or not you believe in them, they__e out there. I__e seen them. I__e even heard them.

We're Christians. We have to care what people think. The appearance of wrongdoing, remember? I'm not going to move in with you had have people think we're living in sin. What sort of witness would that be?

When sinners judge, God takes the stand.

But witnesses incur responsibilities, as anyone who has ever seen a traffic accident and had to go to court to testify, knows. In the new world of globally televised war crimes, the defence of 'not knowing,' or neutrality, will dissolve for everyone. To be a witness or bystander is not a value-free choice but, inadvertently, a moral position; and in this sense the 'guilt' of people who live with the memory of crimes committed by members of their families, or communities, has been unwittingly extended to everyone who watches appalling pictures on the news.

Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." -

Witnessing honesty frightens some people because they haven't known authenticity in their own life.

Confessions are meant to reveal universal truths through specific examples.

My Universe, crashing into yours, was the most beautiful accident this creation had ever witnessed.

We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs.

As anyone who has experienced it will know, war is many contradictory things. There is brutality and heroism, comedy and tragedy, friendship, hate, love and boredom. War is absurd yet fundamental, despicable yet beguiling, unfair yet with its own strange logic. Rarely are people 'back home' exposed to these contradictions _ society tends only to highlight those qualities it needs, to construct its own particular narrative.

Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees.