Charles Colson Quotes

Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.

The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.

The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.

We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.

Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.

We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.

God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it's convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic.

Culture is religion incarnate.

God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.

In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.

The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.

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.

God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.

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.

The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!

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.

Today's marginalization of Christianity is a direct result of our failure to understand our faith as a total worldview.

Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.

Who speaks for God? He does quite nicely for Himself. Through His holy and infallible Word - and the quiet obedience of His servants.

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon.

If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society.

The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.

Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.

I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.

God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.

Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

I do not believe one can experience conversion or the fullness of the Christian life apart from the church.