23 Chuck Colson Quotes

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

Loving God - really loving Him - means living out His commands no matter what the cost.

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.

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

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

Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call to this country . . . It wakes us up to the fact that our God is sovereign and we should be constantly in a state of repentance humbly seeking God's favor.

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

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

May the Christian church never be regarded as a special interest group. We're here because we love our neighbor.

You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

The disciples' decision to obey Jesus after the Ascension proved to be a pivot point in history. The word was never the same again.

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government.

The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.

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

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.

Manners - the habits of the people - are bred in family and church. Therefore, it isn't an issue of laws but of habits and manners.

The greatest single scandal in evangelical assemblies, and I can really only speak for that, is the low regard individual Christians have for the church.

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

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

Obedience is the key to real faith.

The greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.