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Quotes by Charles Colson – Part II

“Loving God – really loving Him – means living out His commands no matter what the cost.”1

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

“The pro-life agenda has no meaning apart from its being rooted in absolute truth, in self-evident truths – truths that are true because they’re true, not because somebody says they are true.”

“I don’t think the job of the church is to make people happy. I think it’s to make them holy.”

“Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.”

“One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don’t ever get up in the morning and wonder if what I do matters. I live every day to the fullest because I can live it through Christ and I know no matter what I do today, I’m going to do something to advance the Kingdom of God.”

“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.”

“The BIBLE – banned, burned, beloved.  More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it,  dictators of every age have outlawed it and executed those who read it.  Yet soldiers carry it into battle believing it more powerful than their weapons.  Fragments of it smuggled into solitary prison cells have transformed ruthless killers into gentle saints.”

“Remain at your post and do your duty – for the glory of God and His kingdom.”

“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.”

“Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.”

“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.”

“It is time for us Christians to face up to our responsibility for holiness. Too often we say we are ‘defeated’ by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated; we are simply disobedient. It might be well if we stopped using the terms ‘victory’ and ‘defeat’ to describe our progress in holiness. Rather we should use the terms ‘obedience’ and ‘disobedience.’”

“Europe has become a post-Christian culture in which the principal religious influence is visible in art treasures and cathedrals filled with tourists rather than worshipers.”

“Man goes to great lengths to avoid his own responsibility.”

“For we should read God’s word not for what we can get out of it, not for what it will do for us, but for what it will teach us to do for our God.”

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


1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:

23 Chuck Colson Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info

TOP 25 QUOTES BY CHARLES COLSON (of 92) | A-Z Quotes

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