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Culture is religion incarnate.

Charles Colson

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Charles Colson
Age: 80 †
Born: 1931
Born: October 16
Died: 2012
Died: April 21
Former White House Counsel
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Charles Chuck Wendell Colson
Charles Wendell Colson
Incarnate
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Culture

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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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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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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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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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What we do flows from who we are.
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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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Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.
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The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.
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Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.
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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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I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.
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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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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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Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.
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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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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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Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
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We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.
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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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