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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.
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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God doesn't want our success He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements He demands our obedience.
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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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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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Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.
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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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What we do flows from who we are.
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A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
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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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Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
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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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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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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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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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I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.
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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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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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Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.
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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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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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