Top 24 Charles W. Colson Quotes
#1. Millions more are addicted to Internet pornography, which has led to a horrific increase in the sexual exploitation of children and attacks on young girls naive enough to arrange meetings with men
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#2. Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.
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#3. I'd always follow Nixon's orders, but you can't order somebody to be happy.
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#4. Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.
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#7. When morality is reduced to personal preferences and when no one can be held morally accountable, society quickly falls into disorder.
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#8. Christians who understand biblical truth and have the courage to live it out can indeed redeem a culture, or even create one. This is the challenge facing all of us in the new millennium.
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#9. In a slick manifesto called Cosmos, Carl Sagan artfully packaged his own creed: The Cosmos is all there is, or was, or ever will be.
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#10. 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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#11. Today the concept of delayed gratification is seen as a denial of some inherent natural right,
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#12. A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
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#13. That which man builds man destroys, but the city of God is built by God and cannot be destroyed by man. AUGUSTINE
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#16. It's not simply that communists are atheists and want to stamp out religion; it's that they cannot tolerate anyone who worships a King who stands above the kings of this world. For that higher allegiance gives a basis for demanding freedom and rights from the earthly king.49
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#17. Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.
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#18. Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.
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#19. The Bible teaches that there is a holy God whose law constitutes a transcendent, universally valid standard of right and wrong. Our choice has no effect at all on this standard; our choice simply determines whether we accept it, or reject it and suffer the consequences.
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#20. 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 well
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#21. Capitalism is astonishingly efficient at generating new wealth, but it operates beneficently only
when the market is shaped by moral forces coming from both the law and the culture-derived ultimately from religion.
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#22. Christian patriots spend more time washing feet than waving flags.
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#23. Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture.
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#24. In his 1978 Harvard commencement address, Solzhenitsyn listed a litany of woes facing the West: the loss of courage and will, the addiction to comfort, the abuse of freedom, the capitulation of intellectuals to fashionable ideas, the attitude of appeasement with evil.
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