Quotes from Charles Colson

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.

God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it's convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic.

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.

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-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history.

So it is that intelligent people often reserve their outrage almost exclusively for what they see as judgmental attitudes — - the one evil they are willing to indict with impunity.

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.

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

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

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.

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.

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.