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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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Charles Colson
Age: 80 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 16
Died: 2012
Died: April 21
Former White House Counsel
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Boston
Massachusetts
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Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
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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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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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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 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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Power is like saltwater the more you drink, the thirstier you get.
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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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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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God doesn't want our success He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements He demands our obedience.
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The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the leading Christians for our cues. We want to emulate the best known preachers with the biggest sanctuaries and the grandest edifices. Preoccupation with these values has perverted the church's message.
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Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.
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