Bearing witness Quote by Cornel West

I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being…

— Cornel West

“For every culture-hero living out his myth, there must be a witness willing to pass the story on. Then”

— Michael Muhammad Knight

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

— Charles Dickens

Know how to 'cling' to him in prayer, and then you will see the face of Christ more clearly in those whom you are…

— Basil Hume

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

— Faye Dunaway

We are called to serve the common good by engaging with political and other institutions, even in our pluralistic society. We bring to that…

— John I. Jenkins

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I signed up for military service in the months following 9/11, and later, as a military intelligence officer, I felt called, like so many…

— Jason Kander

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor…

— Billy Graham

Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved.

— John Lewis

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual,…

— Khaled Hosseini

It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music…

— Jeff Tweedy