Arena Quote by Charles Colson

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

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

— Charles Colson

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

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

— Charles Colson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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