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
government intrinsic-value human-life
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.
people roles use
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.
struggle personal-opinions ideas
People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we're left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a 'common good' without an objective standard of truth?
exercise political culture
Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.
christian people leader
The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!
spiritual country social-values
Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.
prison lord i-can
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
feel-good feels therapeutic
God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it's convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic.
christian civilization negative
Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.
self infinite capacity
We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.
inspirational environmental who-we-are
What we do flows from who we are.
mean live-your-life important
You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.
faces band oppression
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.
christian culture individual
Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.