Witness Quotes - Page 33

• Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Prayer

  Woodrow Wilson (1916). “Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence”, Best Books

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• Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.

  David A. Bednar

  Personal Knowledge, Facts, Ghost

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• If you reflect often on how His Atonement has changed you, and if you give thanks often, you will find that your witness of Him gains power to touch the hearts of others. When those you invite out of your own testimony feel that witness, they will come to accept Him as their Lord and Savior.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Heart, Giving, Gains

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• Parents who struggle to get a witness of the Savior into the heart of a child will be helped as they seek for a way to bring the words and the spirit of the Book of Mormon into the home and all the lives in their family.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Struggle, Book

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• Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Rights, Hymns, Jail

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• Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

  Agatha Christie

  People, Stories, Habit

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• She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness.

  Ayn Rand

  Pain, Naked

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.710, Penguin

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• Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.

  Ann Patchett

  Art, Voice, People

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• Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.

  Anne Rice

  Queens, Destiny, Evil

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• You are equipped with strong bodies and educated minds. Add to these an unshakable faith in a divine providence and you have the tools by which you may build a successful life. Make each day your masterpiece and live so nobly that you may witness honestly each day: Whatever came to your hands this day, you did it to the best of your ability

  Harold B. Lee

  Strong, Successful, Hands

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• There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

  Anne Rice

  Purpose, World, Bears

  Anne Rice (1996). “Servant of the Bones”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Inspire, Adults

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• Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Children, Fire, Hands

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• Why do you want to be on The Real World?
  Because I want everyone to witness my youth.
  Why?
  Isn't it gorgeous?

  Dave Eggers

  Real, World, Want

  "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Book by Dave Eggers, 2000.

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• We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.

  Annie Dillard

  Healing, Abet, Creation

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• For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Achievement, Tragedy, Triumph

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Goal, Miracle, Trying

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• Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Actors, Knows

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• We can be walking witnesses and standing sermons to which objective onlookers can say a quiet amen.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Quiet, Amen, Standing

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• But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Courage, Grief, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.64, Beacon Press

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• The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Hate, Real, Arrows

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• Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

  Junot Diaz

  Success, Failure

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.136, Faber & Faber

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• Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

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  Ram Dass

  Life, Stories, Actors

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• And that's why i have to go back to so many places there to find myself and constantly examine myself with no witness but the moon and then whistle with joy, ambling over rocks and clods of earth, with no task but to live, with no family but the road.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Moon, Rocks

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• Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord.

  Charles Dickens

  Might, Stairs, Lorry

  Charles Dickens (2010). “A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club): Two Novels”, p.62, Penguin

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