People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about… — 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
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
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
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom. — 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
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
Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the… — 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 true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders! — 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
I meet millions who tell me that they feel demoralized by the decay around us. The hope that each of us has… — 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
