To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it's convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
It would take a God with equal measures of truth, love, and justice to [give us a metanarrative]. Since I had abandoned… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
When it comes to the culture, there's no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we're not defending truth, fighting for Christian values… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue,… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“This idea that it’s intolerant to object to anyone else’s position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance,… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus… — Charles Colson Copy Share
Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess. — Charles Colson Copy Share
If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society. — Charles Colson Copy Share
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems. — Charles Colson Copy Share
Lenin, Stalin, and Rakosi recognized that a renewed and purified Christianity was the only force that could move the masses as powerfully as the… — Charles Colson Copy Share
Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that… — Charles Colson Copy Share
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and… — Charles Colson Copy Share
In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in… — Charles Colson Copy Share
The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent… — Charles Colson Copy Share
The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell… — Charles Colson Copy Share
Why, I wondered, is there such hostility to one faith in this Hindu culture that believes all roads lead to heaven? They should be… — Charles Colson Copy Share
I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture. — Charles Colson Copy Share
Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the… — Charles Colson Copy Share
But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in this prison,… — Charles Colson Copy Share
Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the… — Charles Colson Copy Share
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