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.

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.

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That’s a good thing.

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

When you’re struggling hard to manage your own emotions, it becomes unbearable to have to witness other people’s, to have to try and manage theirs too.

I hate to witness animals in captivity – or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it’s a loss of what they are.

To write is to bear witness to the world

I am willing to witness my fears.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

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.

One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

I’m a Jehovah’s Witness.