Testimony Quotes - Page 12

• When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.

  Ernest Sosa

  Writing, Knowing, Long

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of our revolution. For the definitive victory of Socialism, for the organization of Socialist production, the efforts of one country, especially of a peasant country like Russia, are insufficient - for that are required the efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Russia, Organization

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discussed it for centuries in metaphysical, economic, biological, and philosophical terms; we listened to all the arguments pro and con, we read all the testimonies of slaves and witnesses, and we decided. Though this 'we" is not everybody on earth, or even most people, who've never thought about slavery much.

  Catherine Wilson

  Philosophical, People, Slavery

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

  Michael Horton

  Focus, Changed, Wells

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• My testimony helps me to establish priorities in my life.

  LaVell Edwards

  Priorities, Helping, Help Me

  Source: universe.byu.edu

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• If the task of scientific methodology is to piece together an account of what scientists actually do, then the testimony of biologists should be heard with specially close attention. Biologists work very close to the frontier between bewilderment and understanding.
  Biology is complex, messy and richly various, like real life; it travels faster nowadays than physics or chemistry (which is just as well, since it has so much farther to go), and it travels nearer to the ground. It should therefore give us a specially direct and immediate insight into science in the making.

  Peter Medawar

  Real, Science, Giving

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• Even before baptism, a child or an adult can have the Holy Ghost testify to their hearts of sacred truth. They must act on that testimony to retain it, but it will guide them toward goodness.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Heart, Baptism

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• Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Gold, Good Faith, All Time

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.74, DoctorZed Publishing

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• In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision--the precious rays of light shining from the throne.

  Ellen G. White

  Writing, Ideas, Light

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book II of III”, p.365, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.

  David Hume

  Men, Decision, Miracle

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.88, VM eBooks

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• The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness

  J. Rufus Fears

  Acceptance, Cities, Endure

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• I did answer all of the questions put to me today, ... Nothing in my testimony in any way contradicted the strong denials that the president has made to these allegations, and since I have been asked to return and answer some additional questions, I think that it's best that I not answer any questions out here and reserve that to the grand jury.

  John Podesta

  Strong, Thinking, President

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• Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Health, Mind, Bears

  Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures 120:15 (1875)

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• The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Perspective, Soul

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• Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Military, Leader, World

  Yitzhak Rabin (1996). “The Rabin Memoirs”, p.423, Univ of California Press

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• In my career I have had many wonderful things happen to me, many more than I ever dreamed would ever happen. But I would like for you young brethren especially to know that all that has happened to me in my chosen profession is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the truly important things in my life. The testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ that I have, along with my wife and my family, are my most important possessions.

  LaVell Edwards

  Life, Dream, Jesus

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• Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has given everything else in my life meaning. Building a testimony is the beginning of building a happy life. Testimony grows step by step as we invest the effort to exercise faith and hope as active parts of everyday living. Prayer is a major tool to help us gain faith and hope.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Life, Prayer, Exercise

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• Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

  James H. Cone

  Religious, Order, Giving

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• A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.

  Beryl Markham

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.272, Open Road Media

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• God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Life, Christian, Mouths

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1996). “Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible”, Fortress Pr

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• A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in
  my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.

  Raul Hilberg

  Mistake, Percentages, My Own

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• As a vital link in the conversion process, we should bear our testimonies that the gospel is true; our testimonies may well be the spark that ignites the conversion process. Consequently, we have a double responsibility: we must testify of the things we know, feel, and have felt, and we must live so the Holy Ghost can be with us and convey our words in power to the heart of the investigator.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Heart, Responsibility, Missionary

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Hands, Bonds Of Love

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• Faith in Jesus Christ and a testimony of Him and His universal Atonement is not just a doctrine with great theological value. Such faith is a universal gift, glorious for all cultural regions of this earth, irrespective of language, race, color, nationality, or socioeconomic circumstance. The powers of reason may be used to try to understand this gift, but those who feel its effects most deeply are those who are willing to accept its blessings, which come from a pure and clean life of following the path of true repentance and living the commandments of God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Blessing, Race

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• I think of the words of the prophet . . . : And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of Him, this is the testimony, last of all, that we give of Him: That He lives.

  Loren C. Dunn

  Life, Thinking, Giving

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