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What we do flows from who we are.
Charles Colson
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Charles Colson
Age: 80 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 16
Died: 2012
Died: April 21
Former White House Counsel
Lawyer
Politician
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Boston
Massachusetts
Charles Chuck Wendell Colson
Charles Wendell Colson
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That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism' as a grave challenge to socialism failure to contain it, Pravda said, was at the root of the problems in Poland.
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Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.
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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.
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The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.
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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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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.
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Power is like saltwater the more you drink, the thirstier you get.
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The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.
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You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
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The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!
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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.
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Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.
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We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.
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The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.
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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.
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God doesn't want our success He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements He demands our obedience.
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I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.
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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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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.
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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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