Charles Colson

Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.

— Charles Colson

Repentance is replete with radical implications for a fundamental change of mind not only turns us from the sinful past, but also…

— Charles Colson

Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used…

— Charles Colson

God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.

— Charles Colson

The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among…

— Charles Colson

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

— Charles Colson

The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of…

— Charles Colson

You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be…

— Charles Colson

The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of…

— Charles Colson

If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the…

— Charles Colson

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

When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years…

— Charles Colson

It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our…

— Charles Colson

It would take a God with equal measures of truth, love, and justice to [give us a metanarrative]. Since I had abandoned…

— Charles Colson

The evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is more powerful than anything else we believe. By His resurrection Jesus proved He…

— Charles Colson

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to…

— Charles Colson

Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

— Charles Colson

God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it's convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic.

— Charles Colson

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

— Charles Colson

I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.

— Charles Colson

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

We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind…

— Charles Colson

We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.

— Charles Colson

... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the…

— Charles Colson

That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism'…

— Charles Colson