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Charles Olson Inspirational Quotes (78)

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Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
Charles Colson
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by night only crazy things like the full moon and the whippoorwill and us, are busy.
Charles Olson
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Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?
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Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.
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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.
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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.
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The Canadian voice is still too rustic.
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My life has been given its orders: the seasons seize the soul and the body, and make mock of any dispersed effort. The hour of death is the only trespass
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I was playing catch with the European audience.
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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
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The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
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Let's acknowledge that America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. When we tolerate trash on television, permit pornography to invade our homes via the Internet, and allow babies to be killed at the point of birth, we are inflaming radical Islam.
Charles Colson
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O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.
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Fact is based upon vulgar matter.
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Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
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We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.
Charles Colson
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We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.
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What we do flows from who we are.
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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
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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.
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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.
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True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.
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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.
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Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
Charles Colson
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