Witnessing Quotes

(On witnessing 9-11) "I left a meeting right after they hit the World Trade Center. I went to my apartment, which looks south, and I watched it out my window. I could see the line of fire across the North Tower. I had my binoculars and a video camera - - though I didn`t want to video it. I saw a few people jump. Then I saw the South Tower go. It was so unreal, I had to confirm it by immediately looking at the television screen. CNN was on. That was the only way to make it real. Like my son said, `It was like watching the moon fall.`"

I just try to touch people`s hearts in a way through skating, so they`re not just witnessing a performance, they`re feeling a performance and they`re a part of it.

I have always thought women were the superior sex. Witnessing childbirth confirmed it for me.

The interfaith communal trip to Israel provides us with a unique spiritual opportunity, ... Not only will we investigate and revitalize our own Judaism, but by sharing our spiritual journey with others and witnessing the sacred impact of Israel on them, we will deepen our understanding of how the Holy Land speaks in different tongues to those who love her. We live in a world increasingly divided by religious beliefs. What a superb opportunity to use our common concern for Israel to unite us and create understanding.

This car sparks some great conversations. It`s like a magnet and a great tool for witnessing. ... After all, we can talk about the weather, the economy or we can talk about the Lord.

Conceivably, we could be witnessing the start of a break from the era of US-led globalization in which Washington preached unfettered trade to the rest of the world.

The priest is Christ`s slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.