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

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Charles Colson
Age: 80 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 16
Died: 2012
Died: April 21
Former White House Counsel
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Charles Chuck Wendell Colson
Charles Wendell Colson
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I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.
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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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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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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 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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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.
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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 society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
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Culture is religion incarnate.
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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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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.
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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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God doesn't want our success He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements He demands our obedience.
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Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
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Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.
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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.
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Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.
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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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We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.
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Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.
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