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We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.
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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Charles Chuck Wendell Colson
Charles Wendell Colson
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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 true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!
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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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