Charles W. Colson

“The naked public square cannot remain naked, the direction is toward the state-as-church, toward totalitarianism.”6”

— Charles W. Colson

“Only a church free of any outside domination can be the conscience of society and, as Washington pastor Myron Augsburger has written,…

— Charles W. Colson

“In his 1978 Harvard commencement address, Solzhenitsyn listed a litany of woes facing the West: the loss of courage and will, the…

— Charles W. Colson

“When the church aligns itself politically, it gives priority to the compromises and temporal successes of the political world rather than its…

— Charles W. Colson

“see how God used my powerlessness for His purposes. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs…

— Charles W. Colson

“Democracy is not prescribed in the Bible, and Christians can and do live under other political systems. But Christians can hardly fail…

— Charles W. Colson

“The lure of power can separate the most resolute of Christians from the true nature of Christian leadership, which is service to…

— Charles W. Colson

“True happiness … is found in fulfilling our higher nature, shaping our lives and our circumstances to reflect the way we are hardwired.”

— Charles W. Colson

“Europe has become a post-Christian culture in which the principal religious influence is visible in art treasures and cathedrals filled with tourists…

— Charles W. Colson

“We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal; that atheism is against,…

— Charles W. Colson

“We can distinguish the good from evil because we have a moral sense bred into us. This is what Paul meant when…

— Charles W. Colson

“And after my imprisonment I could look back and”

— Charles W. Colson

“If Christians today understood this distinction between the role of the private Christian citizen and the Christian in government, they might sound…

— Charles W. Colson

“Finally, the loss of moral authority in the law means we have forfeited the rule oflaw and reverted to arbitrary human rule.…

— Charles W. Colson

“In a pluralistic society it is not only wrong but unwise for Christians to shake their Bibles and arrogantly assert that “God…

— Charles W. Colson

“G. K. Chesterton described as “a taboo of tact or convention, whereby we are free to say that a man does this…

— Charles W. Colson

“Almost every new movie I see these days features a bright, good-looking, talented young man who is so downright sad, he can…

— Charles W. Colson

“Television’s emergence as the dominant medium of communication gave birth to the slickly marketed health-wealth-and-success gospel rampant in today’s church.”

— Charles W. Colson

“Clearly, the Fall was not just an isolated act of disobedience that could be quickly mended. Every part of God's good handiwork…

— Charles W. Colson

“Columnist Joseph Sobran writes, “The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best…

— Charles W. Colson

“What the audience heard was like nothing they had ever encountered.”

— Charles W. Colson

“A Christian writer has summed this up well: “The ‘Christian state’ is one that gives no special public privilege to Christian citizens…

— Charles W. Colson

“In a slick manifesto called Cosmos, Carl Sagan artfully packaged his own creed: “The Cosmos is all there is, or was, or…

— Charles W. Colson

“Justice without mercy is tyranny, and mercy without justice is weakness. Justice without love is pure socialism, and love without justice is…

— Charles W. Colson

“Many people—particularly the young—have been persuaded that such a search is futile. They have been told from their preschool days on that…

— Charles W. Colson