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• Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Father, Want

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• Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you overlook her most important qualities of having a strong testimony, living the principles of the gospel, loving home, wanting to be a mother in Zion, and supporting you in your priesthood responsibilities. Of course, she should be attractive to you.... And one good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mother, Strong, Responsibility

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart. You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child's dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father ,from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear. Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it. " My dear Louisa," said he, you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me, my dear girl.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Dream, Children

  Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

  George Sterling

  Dark, World, Sun

  George Sterling, “The Testimony Of The Suns”

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• It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  World, Littles, Inspired

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.35, Atlântico Press

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• My husband, Andrius, says that evil will rule until good men or women choose to act. I believe him. This testimony was written to create an absolute record, to speak in a world where our voices have been extinguished. These writing may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. It is my greatest hope that the pages in this jar stir your deepest well of human compassion. I hope they prompt you to do something, to tell somone. Only then can we ensure that this kind of evil is never allowed to repeat itself.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Husband, Believe, Writing

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• There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.66, Multnomah

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• I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Diversity

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• That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the Good News and moving towards the full unity of all Christians in order to offer a more credible testimony of the Gospel.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Moving, Order

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• While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases for themselves, but having testimony from their fathers, wrote as they did. For ancient bishops, of the great Rome and our city [i.e., Alexandria, Egypt, where Athanasius was bishop], some 130 years ago, wrote and censured those who said that the Son was a creature and not consubstantial with the Father.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Sarcastic, Father, Son

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• I will go forward... I will smile at the rage of the tempest, and ride fearlessly and triumphantly across the boisterous ocean of circumstance... And the 'testimony of Jesus' will light up a lamp that will guide my vision through the portals of immortality, and communicate to my understanding the glories of the Celestial kingdom.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Spiritual, Jesus, Ocean

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• The Church is a home for all to come together, regardless of the depth or the height of our testimony. I know of no sign on the doors of our meetinghouses that says, “Your testimony must be this tall to enter.”

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Spiritual, Home, Doors

  "Receiving a Testimony of Light and Truth". www.lds.org. October, 2014.

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• A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

  Llewellyn Powers

  Health, Brain, Dry

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• Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

  Pope Francis

  Dedication, Noble, Common

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• When individual members and families immerse themselves in the scriptures regularly and consistently, … other areas of activity will automatically come. Testimonies will increase. Commitment will be strengthened. Families will be fortified. Personal revelation will flow

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Commitment, Flow, Scripture

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• You can leave the Church, but you can’t leave it alone. The basic reason for this is simple. Once someone has received a witness of the Spirit and accepted it, he leaves neutral ground. One loses his testimony only by listening to the promptings of the evil one, and Satan’s goal is not complete when a person leaves the Church, but when he comes out in open rebellion against it.

  Glenn L. Pace

  Simple, Evil, Goal

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• The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Hands, Order

  "Commemorating The 70th Anniversary Of Liberation", www.ushmm.org.

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• Dear Father, take this days life into Thine own keeping. Control all my thoughts and feelings. Direct all my energies. Instruct my mind. Sustain my will. Take my hands and make them skilful to serve Thee. Take my feet and make them swift to do Thy bidding. Take my eyes and keep them fixed upon Thine everlasting beauty. Take my mouth and make it eloquent in testimony to Thy love. Make this day a day of obedience, a day of spiritual joy and peace. Make this days work a little part of the work of the Kingdom of my Lord Christ, in whose name these my prayers are said. Amen.

  John Baillie

  Spiritual, Prayer, Father

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

  R. C. Sproul

  Dignity, Crosses, Eloquent

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• The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.

  Lanza del Vasto

  Peace, Ordinary, Gains

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• I add my personal witness: Our missionaries are not salesmen with wares to peddle; rather, they are servants of the Most High God, with testimonies to bear, truths to teach, and souls to save. Each missionary who goes forth in response to a sacred call becomes a servant of the Lord whose work this truly is. Do not fear, young men, for He will be with you. He never fails. He has promised: "I will go before your face. I will be on your right hand and on your left, and my Spirit shall be in your hearts, and mine angels round about you, to bear you up"

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Angel, Men

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• What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

  Giordano Bruno

  Virtue, Clear, Indication

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• My duty as a member of the Council of the Twelve is to protect what is most unique about the LDS church, namely the authority of priesthood, testimony regarding the restoration of the gospel, and the divine mission of the Savior. Everything may be sacrificed in order to maintain the integrity of those essential facts. Thus, if Mormon Enigma reveals information that is detrimental to the reputation of Joseph Smith, then it is necessary to try to limit its influence and that of its authors.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Integrity, Unique, Order

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• Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.

  Ralph Nader

  Book, Research, Benefits

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• But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Alden Nowlan, Walter Learning, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1976). “Frankenstein: the play”, Irwin Publishing

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