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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.
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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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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Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.
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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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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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... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.
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We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.
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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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The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.
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A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
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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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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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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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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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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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I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.
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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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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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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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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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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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