Charles Colson Quotes - Page 3

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• I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

  Charles Colson

  Prison, Lord, I Can

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• No, you can take it from an expert in cover-ups-I've lived through Watergate-that nothing less than a resurrected Christ could have caused those men to maintain to their dying whispers that Jesus is alive and is Lord. Two thousand years later, nothing less than the power of the risen Christ could inspire Christians around the world to remain faithful-despite prison, torture, and death.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.

  Charles Colson

  Bible, Christian, Doe

  Charles Colson (1994). “Who Speaks for God?”, Tyndale House Pub

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• Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

  Charles Colson

  Band, Faces, Oppression

  Charles W. Colson (2010). “God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics”, p.113, Harper Collins

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

  Charles Colson

  Feel Good, Feels, Convenient

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• When God wanted to defeat sin, His ultimate weapon was the sacrifice of His own Son. On Christmas Day two thousand years ago, the birth of a tiny baby in an obscure village in the Middle East was God's supreme triumph of good over evil.

  Charles Colson

  Baby, Son, Sacrifice

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• The evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is more powerful than anything else we believe. By His resurrection Jesus proved He is who He says He is. Be confident in this truth. Stand on the Holy Word of God. Don't sell the world a false bill of goods. Preach the word. Defend the faith. Live the faith.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, Powerful, Believe

  Charles Colson (1994). “Faith on the Line”, Chariot Victor Publishing

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• Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Numbers

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• Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

  Charles Colson

  Giving, Heroism, Ordinary

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.135, Zondervan

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• 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

  Christian, Religious, Foundation

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• Lenin, Stalin, and Rakosi recognized that a renewed and purified Christianity was the only force that could move the masses as powerfully as the Marxist ideal could. They attacked it as the enemy that it was and is.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Moving

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

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• The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.

  Charles Colson

  Facts, Word Of God, Infallible

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.56, Zondervan

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• Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.

  Charles Colson

  Caring, Community, Culture

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.194, Zondervan

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• Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

  Charles Colson

  Church, Culture, Missions

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• The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.

  Charles Colson

  Foundation, Safe, Problem

  Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey (2011). “How Now Shall We Live?”, p.525, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Culture is religion incarnate.

  Charles Colson

  Culture

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• 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 in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.

  Charles Colson

  College, Average, Years

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• To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.

  Charles Colson

  Tragedy, Quests, Life Is

  Charles Colson (2012). “The Good Life”, p.16, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Why, I wondered, is there such hostility to one faith in this Hindu culture that believes all roads lead to heaven? They should be the most tolerant of all. What is it about the Judeo-Christian message that makes it so offensive? Ironically, the Indians may understand the heart of the gospel - that Christ is King, with all that portends - better than many in the 'Christian' West.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Kings

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

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God's Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, News, Redemption

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• The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.

  Charles Colson

  Jobs, Church, Saint

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

  Charles Colson

  People, Roles, Use

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• I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

  Charles Colson

  Grandmother, Walks, My Own

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• The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West is the story of the difference that Christianity makes, and it's a story we can't let our culture forget.

  Charles Colson

  Moving, Differences, Culture

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

  Charles Colson

  Self, Infinite, Capacity

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