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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.
Charles Colson
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Charles Colson
Age: 80 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 16
Died: 2012
Died: April 21
Former White House Counsel
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Boston
Massachusetts
Charles Chuck Wendell Colson
Charles Wendell Colson
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It's part of the buzz of the city among Christians. It wouldn't surprise me that it got to George Bush. He reads, he picks stuff up, he talks to people. And he's pretty serious about his own Christian beliefs.
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We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.
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Culture is religion incarnate.
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A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
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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.
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Power is like saltwater the more you drink, the thirstier you get.
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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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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.
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You are called not to be successful or to meet any of the other counterfeit standards of this world, but to be faithful and to be expended in the cause of serving the risen and returning Christ.
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Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.
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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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Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
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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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Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.
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Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
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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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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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I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.
Charles Colson
Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.
Charles Colson
Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.
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