Clipped comments Volume 34, Number 1 Posted January 24, 2001 “I have faith that with God’s help we as a nation will move forward together as one nation, indivisible.” President-elect George W. Bush “I say to President-elect Bush that what remains of partisan rancor must now be put aside, and may God bless his stewardship of this country.” Vice-President Al Gore “Jesus is my strength. He is my backbone. He is everything that I can’t be. Now I have a friend who loves me and will walk with me and talk with me and who will discipline me when I’m wrong.” Chris Carter, record-setting wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings, seven-time Pro Bowl selection. “In some ecumenical circles, the barometer of conviction has fallen so low that it no longer registers the temperature of truth.” Dr. Timothy George, Senior Advisor, Christianity Today “Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.” G.K. Chesterton “We couldn’t think of anything more significant than to honor this man, who has done so much spiritually, socially and culturally for the world.” Mannie Jackson, owner of the Harlem Globetrotters, after presenting Pope John Paul II a framed Globetrotter jersey with No. 75. “Today’s marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview. We’ve lost our voice in the public square because we forgot, as Psalm 24:1 says, ‘the earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it.’” Charles Colson “In one sense, the resistance of the dominant culture to the confession ‘Jesus is Lord’ is as old as Christian faith itself. The early Christian martyrs were not put to death simply for believing in Jesus; they were put to death because they would not take part in the imperial cult of Rome. That is, they were not willing to regard their own religious beliefs and practices as part of an eclectic smorgasbord in the way most religions did.” “The Crucified One is Lord,” Reformed Church in America

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