But all at once I realized that it was not my success God had used to enable me to help those in this prison, or in hundreds of others just like it. My life of success was not what made… — 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 to call good evil and evil good. — 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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