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What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

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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Massachusetts
Charles Chuck Wendell Colson
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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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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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Culture is religion incarnate.
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The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.
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What we do flows from who we are.
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One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don't ever get up in the morning and wonder if what I do matters. I live every day to the fullest because I can live it through Christ and I know no matter what I do today, I'm going to do something to advance the Kingdom of God.
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Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.
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Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.
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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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I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.
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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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Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
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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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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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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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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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Power is like saltwater the more you drink, the thirstier you get.
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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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We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.
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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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