A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Related You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Testimony is the beginning of and a prerequisite to continuing conversion. Testimony is a point of d... DAVID A. BEDNAR You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation It seems to me that testimonies should once ... FINDLEY B. EDGE The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t... C. JOYBELL C. He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The shape does not change. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or a... NEIL GAIMAN When they eventually ran out of food, some but not all resorted to eating the flesh of those who'd d... JAMES HOUSTON The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrific... NORM TOMLINSON Perjury in the courtroom can be eliminated by changing the oath to read: Do you solemly swear that S... VINCE MEGNA I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It... JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have... LEMONY SNICKET Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies! ANTHONY T.HINCKS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK The only true testimony is the Truth of God. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near... A.J. DARKHOLME Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Farming is the oldest profession on earth SOTONYE ANGA He said it was the kind of book you made your own. STEPHEN CHBOSKY No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a ... CRISS JAMI You can always give your testimony of how you came to know Jesus. Certainly no one can argue with yo... HENRY HON People want chat histories. They're a permanent testimony of a relationship. BRIAN ACTON The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. CRAIG GROESCHEL To have an outstanding testimony is to bless and help others with such testimony SUNDAY ADELAJA Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place... ANKITA SINGHAL Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is... C. JOYBELL C. It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesti... KENNETH LAY What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Death is tough for the people left behind on earth. PRATEEKSHA MALIK People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ... FREDRIK BACKMAN When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No... MILAN KUNDERA The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. STANLEY BALDWIN This album is almost a testimony of our personal lives. I've gone through a lot of situations. LATOCHA SCOTT Clearly, this is not the best day in Mrs. Clinton's life. Well, she was misled ... she learned the n... MARSHA BERRY And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I prayed in the temple, I ... BIBLE We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatev... C. JOYBELL C. I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
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KING My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w... B. B. KING Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I&... B. B. KING I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b... B. B. KING Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you... B. B. KING Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. B. B. KING I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wa... B. B. KING Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's... B. B. KING I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like. B. B. KING The blues was bleeding the same blood as me. B. B. KING Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there! B. B. KING If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me... B. B. KING Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain. B. B. KING People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never di... B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. B. B. KING I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. B. B. KING Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. Wh... B. B. KING If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary ... B. B. WARFIELD I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I u... B. B. KING Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore. B. B. KING I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Er... B. B. KING I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, an... B. B. KING I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never th... B. B. KING The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. B. KING When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are... B. B. KING I used to play - when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in ... B. B. KING I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all. B. B. KING 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thoug... B. B. KING If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything ... B. B. KING I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie [Ray Vaughan] missed on bo... B. B. KING When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on sta... B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g... B. B. KING I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, g... B. B. KING I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music... B. B. KING My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucil... B. B. KING I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big... B. B. KING I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played,... B. B. KING The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille. B. B. KING The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still com... B. B. KING I got a chance to ride today on a very nice bus and from my window I can see how beautiful this coun... B. B. KING My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p... B. B. KING Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'c... B. B. KING Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here... B. B. KING I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist,... B. B. KING As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one ha... B. B. KING I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o... B. B. KING We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. B. B. KING I think the clock is ticking, yes. In fact, I know it is. Frank Sinatra sang about the September of ... B. B. KING When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. P... B. B. KING Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'... B. B. KING