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Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

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

We should remember that bearing a heartfelt testimony is only a beginning. We need to bear testimony, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to live it. We need to both declare and live our testimonies.

Testimony always comes from people who are in some way disempowered.

I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.

The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.

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

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses.