"It's a Christmas tree. In all honesty, I don't know what more to say about it."
Cullen Werwie
Spokesman for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, after Walker renamed the capitol "holiday tree" a "Christmas tree" (AP/RNS)
"Christian conservative operatives advance a political agenda by suggesting that the priorities of corporations and the GOP fit snugly with the teachings of Jesus. This might be good politics, but it's bad theology."
Richard Cizik
President of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good (Washington Post/RNS)
"When he accepts the fact that we know that he loves Jesus Christ, then I think I'll like him a little better.''
Jake Plummer
Former Denver Broncos quarterback, on fellow football player Tim Tebow's openness about his Christian faith (XTRA Sports 910/RNS)
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"Courage isn't the oak that sees storms come and go, but the fragile little blossom that opens in the snow."
Alice Mackenzie Swaim
Scottish-born U.S. poet, 1912-1996 (A Poet for the Ages/Joan Prescott)
"My devout father, now 88, has reached a new place in his understanding of biblical interpretations of the end times. He says when we all get to heaven, we will all be lined up, and God will say, 'You were all wrong.'"
Dick Staub
Author of About You: Fully Human and Fully Alive and the host of The Kindlings Muse, www.thekindlings.com (RNS)
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