Charles Colson

“I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it.”

“True tolerance is not a total lack of conviction; it is the conviction that all people have an equal right to their own convictions.”

“Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, but a gift for the guilty.”

“What is a worldview? It is a framework, a lens, through which we see the world and by which we order our lives.”

“The most important thing in life is to know God and to make Him known.”

“I would run over my own grandmother to get Richard Nixon re-elected.”

“The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.”

“The Bible is the authoritative Word of God. It is the story of God's saving acts in history.”

“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things... but rather a legacy of character and faith.”

“Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.”

“The church is not a country club. It's a hospital for sinners.”

“The moral bankruptcy of a society is measured by its treatment of its prisoners.”

“That's the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.”

“We can’t simply blame the engineers when things go wrong in a society. The problems are not just technical, but moral.”

“Where is the hope? The hope that each of us have is not in who governs us, or what laws are passed... The hope is in the power of God's grace.”