Charles Colson
God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it's convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic.Collection: Feel Good
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.Collection: Baby
The evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ is more powerful than anything else we believe. By His resurrection Jesus proved He is who He says He is. Be confident in this truth. Stand on the Holy Word of God. Don't sell the world a false bill of goods. Preach the word. Defend the faith. Live the faith.Collection: Jesus
Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Giving
If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Christian
The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.Collection: Facts
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.Collection: Caring
Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.Collection: Church
The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.Collection: Foundation
Culture is religion incarnate.Collection: Culture
The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.Collection: College
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.Collection: Tragedy
Why, I wondered, is there such hostility to one faith in this Hindu culture that believes all roads lead to heaven? They should be the most tolerant of all. What is it about the Judeo-Christian message that makes it so offensive? Ironically, the Indians may understand the heart of the gospel - that Christ is King, with all that portends - better than many in the 'Christian' West.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Jesus
The church's job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.Collection: Jobs
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.Collection: People
The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West is the story of the difference that Christianity makes, and it's a story we can't let our culture forget.Collection: Moving
We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.Collection: Self
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.Collection: Government
The Bible's historical accuracy is a reminder that while "the heavens declare the glory of God," there's also plenty of evidence among the rubble and ruins.Collection: Bible
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too wellCollection: Government
I meet millions who tell me that they feel demoralized by the decay around us. The hope that each of us has is not in who governs us, or what laws are passed... Our hope is in the power of God working in the hearts of people.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Successful
Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.Collection: Christian
You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Hurt
The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!Collection: Christian
It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not opposites, and that atheists are far from being on the side of reason. You can find on our website a chart which I use to demonstrate the various worldviews work out, and which one, Christianity, is rational. Many kids, however, who grow up huddled in a Christian environment find themselves in the university setting completely unequipped to defend the rationality of the Christian faith against the secular humanist worldview so prevalent on college campuses.Collection: Christian
We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost many of our rights to govern ourselves. We have the form of self-government, but only some of the substance. We are, in a sense, a nation run by a handful of judges who often enforce, not the law, but their personal opinions.Collection: Running
Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.Collection: Life Is
Repentance is replete with radical implications for a fundamental change of mind not only turns us from the sinful past, but also transforms our life plan, ethics, and actions as we begin to see the world through God's eyes rather than ours. That kind of transformation requires the ultimate surrender of self.Collection: Eye
We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.Collection: Christian
The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.Collection: People
The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.Collection: Christian
Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.Collection: Christian
Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.Collection: Moral
... 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.Collection: Spiritual
The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity’s reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West is the story of the difference that Christianity makes, and it’s a story we can’t let our culture forget.Collection: Stories