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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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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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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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You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
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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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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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God doesn't want our success He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements He demands our obedience.
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