100 Quotes About Testimony

The Bible is the foundation of our faith. It gives us the foundation to live by, and may even lead us to salvation. But it’s not just a book. It’s much more than that Read more

It’s a testimony. It’s the story of the greatest people to ever walk the face of this earth, who lived their lives in service to others. And it’s for you to take it and use it, to reflect on its teachings, and apply them to your life.

Nowhere else can you find so many stories of faith, hope, love, courage, strength, and hope that come straight from God Himself. Take these quotes on faith with you for whenever you need inspiration!

If it's not for Him, I guess I'd be dead...
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If it's not for Him, I guess I'd be dead few years ago. Jestoni Revealed
The only true testimony is the Truth of God.
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The only true testimony is the Truth of God. Lailah Gifty Akita
The Truth is true testimony of God.
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The Truth is true testimony of God. Lailah Gifty Akita
In tough and desperate times when your creativity begs to...
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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… Stanice Anderson
Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not...
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Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can’t let go. Shannon L. Alder
The word of God is a testimony of warning.
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The word of God is a testimony of warning. Lailah Gifty Akita
Tell your testimony.
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Tell your testimony. Lailah Gifty Akita
If I, being what I am, can consider that I...
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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? C.s. Lewis
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Winners were not born winners; they learnt and practiced how to win and they have it! Everyone who gives a great testimony about his/her life begins with a beginning that was "inadequate" until something happened... an a breakthrough became evident! Israelmore Ayivor
If you are possessed by the desire to be useful...
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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 Sunday Adelaja
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom...
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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. Immanuel Kant
You don't need my testimony to know God is Good....
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You don't need my testimony to know God is Good. I pray u have a testimony for yourself. Kingsley OfosuAmpong
Closed mouths, only lead to closed gates. Share your salvation!
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Closed mouths, only lead to closed gates. Share your salvation! Anthony Liccione
We testify about wonders of Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Son...
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We testify about wonders of Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Lailah Gifty Akita
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What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. — Richard Goodwin David Pietrusza
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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 circumstances. When this happens, the oft-disappointed world will notice and investigate.11/02/2010 blog . Brian Eshleman
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It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence. Criss Jami
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What is the one message that only you can give? It's your story. J.R. Rim
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May our lifestyles be a testimony of the hope we have in Christ Jesus. Lailah Gifty Akita
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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. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Shall we accept the testimony of a man, yet reject the Truth of God. Lailah Gifty Akita
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If my children think I'm genuine, no one else's opinion matters to me. Beth Moore
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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. Lisa Bedrick
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The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the Christian accuses the Agnostic of arrogance, and asks him how he has the impudence to admit the limitations of his mind. To the Agnostic every fact is a torch, and by this light, and this light only, he walks. The Agnostic knows that the testimony of man is not sufficient to establish what is known as the miraculous. We would not believe to-day the testimony of millions to the effect that the dead had been raised. The church itself would be the first to attack such testimony. If we cannot believe those whom we know, why should we believe witnesses who have been dead thousands of years, and about whom we know nothing? The Agnostic takes the ground that human experience is the basis of morality. Consequently, it is of no importance who wrote the gospels, or who vouched or vouches for the genuineness of the miracles. In his scheme of life these things are utterly unimportant. He is satisfied that “the miraculous” is the impossible. He knows that the witnesses were wholly incapable of examining the questions involved, that credulity had possession of their minds, that 'the miraculous' was expected, that it was their daily food. . Robert G. Ingersoll
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Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are. Tom Clancy
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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 on a narrow plank-walk, which wound up toward heaven; and I was exhorting and pleading with the people to come upon the plank and escape that awful place. Several started. There was a beautiful bright light above me, and I was encouraging them to follow that light and they would go straight to heaven." In all these trials God was preparing me and opening the way for the great battle against the enemy of souls and now the great desire of my heart was to work for Jesus. I longed to win a star for the Savior's crown. Maria WoodworthEtter
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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. Felix Wantang
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As long as you invite faith, courage, and perseverance to become your daily companions, every test would inevitably mature into a testimony in your life. Unknown
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Not only do skeptics such as Lanning choose to ignore eyewitness/victim accounts of ritual criminal activity, they apparently also choose to overlook the significant number of cases of ritual abuse in which perpetrators have confessed to their crimes. In the Bottoms et al. (1991; 1993) study of 2, 292 cases of ritual abuse, perpetrators in 30% of the child cases confessed to abusing one or more children, and perpetrators in 15% of adult cases confessed to perpetrating as well. In the case studied by Snow and Sorenson (1990), two adolescent perpetrators admitted to charges of abuse. Both of these sets of data require further analysis to determine which acts of ritual abuse were confessed to by what number of perpetrators. Corroboration and eyewitness accounts offered by children should also be given serious attention when therapists and investigators can demonstrate that no contamination of the children’s disclosures has taken place. In the case studied by Jonker and Jonker-Bakker (1991), children from different schools and different locales gave accounts of perpetrators, abuse locations, and abusive acts that were mutually corroborating. Accounts of tunnels under the McMartin preschool given by children claiming to have been ritually abused at the school were fully corroborated when the existence and location of the tunnels were documented by a professional team of archaeologists (Summit, 1994)."from Denying Ritual Abuse of ChildrenThe Journal of Psychohistory 22 (3) 1995 . Catherine Gould
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It has become fashionable in the last several years for the media to minimize and even dissemble about the data which so strongly support the existence of ritual abuse. Amazingly, this has happened even in relation to ritual abuse cases in which criminal convictions have been obtained. Parenting magazine (Ruben, 1994), for example, asserted that “far more cases (of ritual abuse) end in acquittal” than in conviction. In fact, 58% of the ritual abuse cases in the Finkeihor (1988) study that went to trial resulted in convictions. In the Kelly (1992b) study, convictions were obtained in 80% of the ritual and sexual abuse cases combined; since there were no significant differences between the rates of criminal conviction in these two groups, we can surmise that convictions were obtained in approximately 80% of the ritual abuse cases Kelly studied. Finally, and most significant given the thousands of cases studied, convictions were obtained in 11% of all ritual child abuse cases studied by Bottoms et al. (1991; 1993)."from Denying Ritual Abuse of ChildrenThe Journal of Psychohistory 22 (3) 1995. Catherine Gould
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Rejoice in the works of your hands, be happy and thankful that you are valuable, that what you say and do insn't taken for a ride, that you have rejected the notion of self-doubt and fear, that God isn't blind towards propagating your positive influence, and finally that you'll leave a meritorious legacy. Michael Bassey Johnson
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God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think. Criss Jami
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Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned Johnnie Dent Jr.
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All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions. Joseph Conrad
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If the rock band U2 had been born in Orange County, California, would they have become just another church worship band? Steve Turner
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You must be willing to go through some tough tests, if you wish to witness a future full of great testimonies. Unknown
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Listening to Don Moen's songs always reminds me of my darkest moments Then 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 OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
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He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw. Frank Herbert
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There is someone out there who needs just a line or a sentence of your life testimony to believe he or she can also make it. Keeping your testimony away from them is more of suspending their accomplishments till further notice! Come on! Let's learn from you! Israelmore Ayivor
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This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain the traumatic kernel at the heart of allegations of organised abuse. In his influential ‘just world’ theory, Lerner (1980) argued that emotional wellbeing is predicated on the assumption that the world is an orderly, predictable and just place in which people get what they deserve. Whilst such assumptions are objectively false, Lerner argued that individuals have considerable investment in maintaining them since they are conducive to feelings of self–efficacy and trust in others. When they encounter evidence contradicting the view that the world is just, individuals are motivated to defend this belief either by helping the victim (and thus restoring a sense of justice) or by persuading themselves that no injustice has occurred. Lerner (1980) focused on the ways in which the ‘just world’ fallacy motivates victim-blaming, but there are other defences available to bystanders who seek to dispel troubling knowledge. Organised abuse highlights the severity of sexual violence in the lives of some children and the desire of some adults to inflict considerable, and sometimes irreversible, harm upon the powerless. Such knowledge is so toxic to common presumptions about the orderly nature of society, and the generally benevolent motivations of others, that it seems as though a defensive scaffold of disbelief, minimisation and scorn has been erected to inhibit a full understanding of organised abuse. Despite these efforts, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in organised abuse and particularly ritualistic abuse (eg Sachs and Galton 2008, Epstein et al. 2011, Miller 2012). Michael Salter
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Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of survivors. One of the standard objections to qualitative research is that participants may lie or fantasise in interview, it has been suggested that adults who report severe child sexual abuse are particularly prone to such confabulation. Whilst all forms of research, whether qualitative or quantitative, may be impacted upon by memory error or false reporting. there is no evidence that qualitative research is particularly vulnerable to this, nor is there any evidence that a fantasy– or lie–prone individual would be particularly likely to volunteer for research into child sexual abuse. Research has consistently found that child abuse histories, including severe and sadistic abuse, are accurate and can be corroborated (Ross 2009, Otnow et al. 1997, Chu et al. 1999). Survivors of child abuse may struggle with amnesia and other forms of memory disturbance but the notion that they are particularly prone to suggestion and confabulation has yet to find a scientific basis. It is interesting to note that questions about the veracity of eyewitness evidence appear to be asked far more frequently in relation to sexual abuse and rape than in relation to other crimes. The research on which this book is based has been conducted with an ethical commitment to taking the lives and voices of survivors of organised abuse seriously. . Michael Salter
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Believe in the sacred word of God, the Holy Bible, with its treasury of inspiration and sacred truth; in the Book of Mormon as a testimony of the living Christ. Believe in the Church as the organization which the God of Heaven established for the blessing of His sons and daughters of all generations of time. Gordon B. Hinckley
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We testify of what we have experienced and witnessed. May our testimony inspired others to share their story. Lailah Gifty Akita
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The hardest thing to ever do is to reveal the naked soul to the world. However, in doing so brings healing, growth, strength, and powerful inspiration! H.E. Olsen
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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. Shannon L. Alder
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Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under pressure from social workers and therapists, produce false allegations of ‘paedophile rings’, ‘cult abuse’ and ‘ritual abuse’. Child protection investigations or legal cases involving allegations of organised child sexual abuse are regularly invoked to illustrate the dangers of ‘false memories’, ‘moral panic’ and ‘community hysteria’. These cautionary tales effectively delimit the bounds of acceptable knowledge in relation to sexual abuse. They are circulated by those who locate themselves firmly within those bounds, characterising those beyond as ideologues and conspiracy theorists. However firmly these boundaries have been drawn, they have been persistently transgressed by substantiated disclosures of organised abuse that have led to child protection interventions and prosecutions. Throughout the 1990s, in a sustained effort to redraw these boundaries, investigations and prosecutions for organised abuse were widely labelled ‘miscarriages of justice’ and workers and therapists confronted with incidents of organised abuse were accused of fabricating or exaggerating the available evidence. These accusations have faded over time as evidence of organised abuse has accumulated, while investigatory procedures have become more standardised and less vulnerable to discrediting attacks. However, as the opening quotes to this introduction illustrate, the contemporary situation in relation to organised abuse is one of considerable ambiguity in which journalists and academics claim that organised abuse is a discredited ‘moral panic’ even as cases are being investigated and prosecuted. Michael Salter
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Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused and their supporters. Multi-perpetrator sexual offences are typically more sadistic than solo offences and organised sexual abuse is no exception. Adults and children with histories of organised abuse have described lives marked by torturous and sometimes ritualistic sexual abuse arranged by family members and other care-givers and authority figures. It is widely acknowledged, at least in theory, that sexual abuse can take severe forms, but when disclosures of such abuse occur, they are routinely subject to contestation and challenge. People accused of organised, sadistic or ritualistic abuse have protested that their accusers are liars and fantasists, or else innocents led astray by overly zealous investigators. This was an argument that many journalists and academics have found more convincing than the testimony of alleged victims. Michael Salter
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God knew my needs and took care accordingly. Louis Zamperini
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Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was–by Time corporate standards–just a little lazy. David Halberstam
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I have to set an example, now more than ever. Facing death is the ultimate test of character. — Cmdr. William Riker Unknown
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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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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During my mental illness, thank God, my grandma was my human rescuer and angel, she ask me to stop taking the medication, leading to the recovering. Lailah Gifty Akita
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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. Rossandra White
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I urge new converts to take plenty of time in Bible study and prayer before getting on a public platform to testify. Billy Graham
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The unbelieving world should see our testimony lived out daily because it just may point them to the Savior. Billy Graham
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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]. Billy Graham
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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. Billy Graham
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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]. Billy Graham
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The scene is France. The theater is the world. Barbara W. Tuchman
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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. Rebekah Nathan
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The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you. Thomas Harris
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You create silent enemies by revealing how much God had blessed you. Michael Bassey Johnson
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One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole. Henry Norris Russell
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Whatever life throws at you, don't turn your back on it; face it, and turn it into a future testimony. Unknown
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When time consistently meets positivity, negative situations turn into testimonies. Unknown
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Trials and tribulations only come into your life to test you, so you could make some testimonies out of them. Unknown
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Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful. Margaret Landon
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Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered. Bill Bryson
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside. Oswald Chambers
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Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours. Madam Secretary
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In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK "was drawing strength from his vulnerability. David Pietrusza
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I'm more human now. It's the God in people that connects them to me.— Ali Davis Miller
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Underestimation has its uses. Sherry Turkle
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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. Tim Tebow
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I would love to continue to be someone that is positive but also be someone that is objective, Tim Tebow
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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? Sherry Turkle
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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 them; even without help I wish and hope to fulfill them. Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone who asks me where I think it lies. If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you. Do not mislead me, do not be glad that I have got lost, do not shout out joyfully: “Look at him! He said he was going home, but there he is crawling into a bog! ” No, do not gloat, but give me your help and support. Leo Tolstoy
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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. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Be the hero of your own story. You are born to turn you mess into a message and the test into a testimony. Farshad Asl
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The old adage that ‘there are two sides to every story’ is not true. There is a story for every storyteller. Kenneth Eade
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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? Nick Rynerson
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How well you cross a storm of life determines your testimony about it Sunday Adelaja
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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 Vijaya Gowrisankar
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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. Suzette R. Hinton
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Sometimes, how a person answers a question is more important than what they actually say. Kenneth Eade
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We testify about wonders of the Saviour, Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Lailah Gifty Akita
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God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony. Shannon L. Alder
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If somebody in your life doesn't think you are a fanatic, you are probably backslidden. David McGee
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I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak. Building 429
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Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth. Edith Hamilton
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Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world. Richard J. Foster
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Remember, today's challenges are tomorrow's testimonies. Nancy Alcorn
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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. David Platt
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God grows the Church through holiness in Christians. David Platt
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To lose a worthless friend is worthy of a testimony. Michael Bassey Johnson
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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. Donald Miller
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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. Shannon L. Alder
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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. Shannon L. Alder
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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. Stefan Fatsis
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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. Charles Haddon Spurgeon