#testimony

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

#beliefs #expectations #judgement #religion #selfrighteousness

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

#brainwashed #personal-truth #religion #seeking-god #testimony

In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#false #inquiry #may #oral #possible

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was. ↗

— Philippe Halsman

#how #human #human being #hundred #kind

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. ↗

— David Hume

#establish #fact #falsehood #kind #miracle

First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#before #cases #first #had #lot

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#fundamental #give #honestly #i #i think

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. ↗

— Mark Strand

#american #been #i #personal #poetry