The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the… — 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 root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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