A client of mine recommended that I read the book entitled Witness. It is an autobiography by Whittaker Chambers. Mr. Chambers was most famous for his involvement with the Alger Hiss trial and for having once been a communist, working for the Soviet Union and then leaving that life and starting anew as a Christian. Here is a quote regarding his definition of “Witness.”
” A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. “
On freedom…
” Freedom is a need of the soul and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. “
On God and nations…
“ There has never been a society or a nation without God. But history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that became indifferent to God, and died. “
On economics and faith…
” Economics is not the central problem of the century. It is a relative problem which can be solved in relative ways. Faith is the central problem of this age. The Western world does not know it, but it already possesses the answer to this problem — but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as Communism’s faith in Man. “
Intriguing book. Intriguiging man. Check it out yourself.
