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Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. -- Alexander McCall Smith
I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time. -- Athol Fugard
I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness. -- Paul Watson
In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. -- Doris Lessing
We want to bear witness today that we know the relation between corporate greed and what goes on too often in the Supreme Court decisions. -- Cornel West
We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity. -- Roxane Gay
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. -- Jane Rule
Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one. -- William Gurnall
Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance. -- Henry Giroux
Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth. -- John Dryden
As a journalist, your job is to bear witness. -- Anthony Shadid
To be human you must bear witness to justice. -- Cornel West
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. -- Elie Wiesel
Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present. -- Jose Parla
The Philippines bear witness to the youthfulness and vitality of the Church. -- Pope Francis
Participate in your life, don't just bear witness to the rain washing you away. -- Thomm Quackenbush
If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God. -- Lyman Abbott
These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know. -- Adrienne Rich
Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world. -- Pope Benedict XVI
All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it. -- Claude Monet
All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures. -- Harriet McBryde Johnson
When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves. -- Bernie Glassman
Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard. -- Nelson Mandela
The Christian needs to walk in peace, so no matter what happens they will be able to bear witness to a watching world. -- Henry Blackaby
Anyone can perform good deeds for an audience; the best among us do their greatest work when no one is present to bear witness. -- Ken Poirot
As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable, -- Viktor E. Frankl
Actions are most important in life: act with love, kindness, understanding, and compassion toward others that they may bear witness to your belief(s). -- Ken Poirot
I'm angry at what's happening to America and angry with myself that I can't do more. I would be miserable if I couldn't bear witness. -- Bill Moyers
The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people. -- Pope Francis
That there are three persons, yet but one God, that do bear witness to the divinity of Christ, and of the plenteous redemption wrought by him -- William Burkitt
You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories. -- Anderson Cooper
I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll is polarized; poised; at a matchless point between lyricism and fire. -- Julius Hemphill
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives. -- Jean-Claude Izzo
The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect. -- Teju Cole
But I bear witness to Christ, too. I really know him to be the savior of the world. And that means more to me than almost anything else I know. -- Orrin Hatch
[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber. -- John Wesley
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me. -- Loraine Boettner
You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration. ... Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage. -- David A. Bednar
As audiences, when we are exposed to oral history projects not only do we learn but in some ways we also bear witness to that which we have not experienced personally. -- Patricia Leavy
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories -- Elie Wiesel
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
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
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal. -- Sharon Salzberg
...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them. -- William James
Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it. -- Cornel West
Who will bear witness to these small islands and oases of wildness as land is divided and sold to become strip malls, housing developments,and parking lots? What happens to the natural history here? We must bear witness. -- Joni L. James
I bear witness that the Savior lives. He loves you. He will guide you through the Holy Ghost as you steadfastly choose to do what is right to a future glorious beyond your dreams. I know He will. -- Richard G. Scott
Every day we bear witness to each woman's knowledge of holding the profound power to decide whether or not to allow the life within her to come to term. The sharing of those moments makes abortion work sacred. -- Merle Hoffman
We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our connections with other people-those who listen to our stories and, by doing so, bear witness with us. -- Victoria Alexander
Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace. -- T.F. Hodge
This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace. -- Dalai Lama
So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world: and he will bear witness for his country-men at the last judgement of the nations. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days. -- Howard Thurman
I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness. -- August Wilson
There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One gift we as writers give to the world is to bear witness to these landscapes and species as we have experienced them. -- Alison Hawthorne Deming
I am inexpressibly grateful that the Lord of my life has granted to me in such abundance these opportunities to take part in the life of his ecclesia and to bear witness to the Living Christ in so many places and in so many ways. -- Emil Brunner
The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek. -- N. T. Wright
Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged -- Alberto Manguel
You are magnificent - a jewel reflecting inwardly and outwardly, the light of the universe. Observe how you respond to beauty everywhere - you bear witness to everything. Be aware that you, yourself, are an inextricable part of the infinite creative intelligence, and be blessed. -- Jay Woodman
To bear witness to all the unnecessary suffering on the planet and make ourselves available to service - whatever that means for each of us. We go deep in our personal relationships in America, but we need to go deep in our public relationships as well. -- Marianne Williamson
Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world!....Employ these new technologies to make the Gospel known, so that the Good News of God's infinite love for all people, will resound in new ways across our increasingly technological world! -- Pope Benedict XVI
I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the strength and power that emerges from sustained resistance and the profound conviction that these forces can be healing, can protect us from dehumanization and despair. -- bell hooks
And the truth shall bear witness of itself. -- Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. -- Peter Zumthor
No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour. -- Martin Jacques
And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation. -- Pat Robertson
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. -- Ezra Pound
I call God to witness that as a private person I have done nothing unbeseeming an honest man, nor, as I bear the place of a public man, have I done anything unworthy of my place. -- Francis Walsingham
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. -- Pierre Trudeau
The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge. -- James E. Faust
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. -- James L. Buckley
The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
The silent bear no witness against themselves. -- Aldous Huxley
When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness. -- John Lancaster Spalding
...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know! -- Charles Dickens
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves. -- Aldous Huxley
There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. -- Mark Twain

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