Quotes and Realities
- God's Word Above All
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"And God spoke all these words: `I am the Lord your God... You shall have no other gods before me... ... You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God....' Furious with rage, [king] Nebuchadnezzar summoned Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.... and said to them... 'if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand? ' Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to the king, 'O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it... But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.' "
- Exodus 20:1,5, Daniel 3:13,15-18 (NIV)
- John Jay
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"I... recommend a general and public return to the praise and thanksgiving to Him [God] from whose goodness these blessings descend. The most effectual means of securing the continuance of our civil and religious liberties, is always to remember with reverence and gratitude the source from which they flow."
- John Jay: Attorney, Diplomat, Jurist; member of the Continental Congress where he was President of Congress; helped write the New York State constitution; Chief Justice of New York Supreme Court; co-authored, along with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, the Federalist Papers - which were instrumental in securing the ratification of the federal Constitution; appointed first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by President George Washington; Governor of New York; Vice-President and then President of the American Bible Society; member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Quoted from: Barton, David, Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, and Religion (Aledo, TX: Wallbuilder Press, 2010), 188: originally quoted from Jay, William, The Life of John Jay: With Selections From His Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers (New York: J. and J. Harper, 1833), Vol. I, 457-458, to the Committee of the Corporation of the City of New York, June 29 1826.
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Have you ever read the Constitution and wondered “what were the Founders intentions behind this or that phrase?” The US Constitution in the Resources section contains online references to the Federalist Papers – an early work by three founding fathers on the intention of each section of the US Constitution. But, if you are looking for something more lively, you could turn to the records of the continental congress link in the Resources section, under Congressional Records, or Elliot's or Farrand's records of the debates, or read about the intentions in the more personalized correspondence, writings and letters of the founders.
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