Quotes and Realities
- Jesus - God the One and Only - Gives Eternal Life
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"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.... He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.... to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.... The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.... From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known."
- John 1:1-5,10,12,14,16-18 (NIV)
- Thomas Jefferson
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"2. On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, [and] instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was past...."
- Thomas Jefferson: Attorney, Diplomat, Educator; member of Continental Congress, signer and principle author of the Declaration of Independence, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State under George Washington, Vice-President under John Adams, third President of the United States, founded the University of Virginia.
Quoted from: Photographic facsimile of Thomas Jefferson's letter to Supreme Court Justice William Johnson, June 12 1823. From Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress collection
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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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