The Bible’s power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.
– Chuck Colson
The Bible
Loving God – really loving Him – means living out His commands no matter what the cost.
– Chuck Colson
Humility
We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.
– Chuck Colson
Christianity | Integrity
The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.
– Chuck Colson
Church | Evangelism
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.
– Chuck Colson
Leadership | The Future
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.
– Chuck Colson
Abortion | Truth
I don’t think the job of the church is to make people happy. I think it’s to make them holy.
– Chuck Colson
Church
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.
– Chuck Colson
Repentance
May the Christian church never be regarded as a special interest group. We’re here because we love our neighbor.
– Chuck Colson
Christianity
You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
– Chuck Colson
Truth
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.
– Chuck Colson
Prayer
The church’s job is to equip the saints for works of service in the world.
– Chuck Colson
Church | Service
The disciples’ decision to obey Jesus after the Ascension proved to be a pivot point in history. The word was never the same again.
– Chuck Colson
Obedience
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government.
– Chuck Colson
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.
– Chuck Colson
Morality | Nature | Circumstances
The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.
– Chuck Colson
Truth
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.
– Chuck Colson
Holiness
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.
– Chuck Colson
Habits
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.
– Chuck Colson
Church
Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
– Chuck Colson
Compassion
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
– Chuck Colson
Service | Work
Obedience is the key to real faith.
– Chuck Colson
Obedience
The greatest friend of truth is time; her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.
– Chuck Colson
Truth | Time