Charles Colson

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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