There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.
Testimony always comes from people who are in some way disempowered.
A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
Testimony gives something to be interpreted.
For God is my witness that I neither preached, affirmed, nor defended them, though they say that I did.
Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
My witness is the empty sky.