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 Image
The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to… — 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
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism'… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Today's widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Lenin, Stalin, and Rakosi recognized that a renewed and purified Christianity was the only force that could move the masses as powerfully… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Why, I wondered, is there such hostility to one faith in this Hindu culture that believes all roads lead to heaven? They… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders! — 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
Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads,… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don't ever get up in the morning and wonder… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are… — 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 Image
Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
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 Image
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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