Charles Colson Quotes

Quotes about:

• I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, Truth, Powerful

  155 Copy quote

• It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

  Charles Colson

  Healing, Self, Achievement

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.25, Zondervan

  106 Copy quote

• 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

  Christian, Evil, Tolerance

  Charles Colson (2012). “The Good Life”, p.191, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

  69 Copy quote

• Where is the hope? I meet millions who tell me that they feel demoralized by the decay around us. Where is the hope? The hope that each of us have is not in who governs us, or what laws are passed, or what great things that we do as a nation. Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people, and that’s where our hope is in this country; that’s where our hope is in life.

  Charles Colson

  Country, Heart, Law

  69 Copy quote

• 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 this morning so glorious -- all my achievements meant nothing in God's economy. "No, the real legacy of my life was my biggest failure -- that I was an ex-convict. My greatest humiliation -- being sent to prison -- was the beginning of God's greatest use of my life; He chose the one thing in which I could not glory for His glory.

  Charles Colson

  Morning, Real, Achievement

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.24, Zondervan

  78 Copy quote

• One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don't ever get up in the morning and wonder if what I do matters. I live every day to the fullest because I can live it through Christ and I know no matter what I do today, I'm going to do something to advance the Kingdom of God.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Morning, Kingdoms

  56 Copy quote

• Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.

  Charles Colson

  Drink

  Charles Colson (1992). “Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

  47 Copy quote

• True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.

  Charles Colson

  Knowing, Tolerance, Judgment

  13 Copy quote

• What we do flows from who we are.

  Charles Colson

  Inspirational, Environmental, Who We Are

  22 Copy quote

• God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.

  Charles Colson

  Achievement, Demand, Want

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.25, Zondervan

  49 Copy quote

• Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Mistake, Party

  69 Copy quote

• Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Tolerance, Culture

  44 Copy quote

• 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 biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religion, Church

  53 Copy quote

• The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it. Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons. Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints

  Charles Colson

  Powerful, Believe, Book

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.55, Zondervan

  71 Copy quote

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

  Charles Colson

  Order, People, Changed

  12 Copy quote

• If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.

  Charles Colson

  Ordinary, Backyards, Culture

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.62, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

  14 Copy quote

• Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

  Charles Colson

  Exercise, Political, Culture

  Charles W. Colson (2010). “God and Government”, p.273, Zondervan

  13 Copy quote

• What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

  Charles Colson

  Fabric, Opinion, Truth Is

  29 Copy quote

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

  Charles Colson

  Giving, Understanding, Moral

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.530, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

  49 Copy quote

• The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!

  Charles Colson

  Christian, People, Leader

  Charles W. Colson (2000). “Chuck Colson Speaks: Twelve Key Messages from Today's Leading Defender of the Christian Faith”

  18 Copy quote

• Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Children, People

  22 Copy quote

• Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

  Charles Colson

  Writing, Imagination, Fiction

  18 Copy quote

• 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 public - or you risk being hauled into court.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Risk

  26 Copy quote

• The life function of [the local church] is to love the God who created it - to care for others out of obedience to Christ, to heal those who hurt, to take away fear, to restore community, to belong to one another, to proclaim the Good News while living it out. The church is the invisible made visible.

  Charles Colson

  Hurt, Community, Church

  7 Copy quote

• People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we're left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a 'common good' without an objective standard of truth?

  Charles Colson

  Struggle, Personal Opinions, Ideas

  Charles Colson (2011). “The Sky Is Not Falling: Living Feaerlessly in These Turbulent Times”, p.15, Worthy Publishing

  10 Copy quote

Page 1 of 4

← Prev

1

2

3

4

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin