Charles Colson
Charles Colson
Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colsonwas an Evangelical Christian leader who founded Prison Fellowship and BreakPoint. Prior to his conversion to Christianity, he served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 October 1931
CountryUnited States of America
files guy throat
Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.
healing self achievement
It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.
kingdoms glory duty
Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.
church culture missions
Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.
drink
Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.
backyards culture ordinary
If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.
prison lord i-can
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
government intrinsic-value human-life
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
compassion misguided
Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
fabric opinion truth-is
What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.
christian college lambs
In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.
tyrants grace doubt
The Bible has, amazingly- no doubt with supernatural grace-survived its critics. The harder tyrants try to eliminate it and skeptics dismiss it, the better read it becomes.
running reality thinking
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.
tragedy quests life-is
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.