Inspirational Quotes by Chuck Colson
“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.”
topics: Prayer
“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.”
topics: Repentance
“The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.”
topics: The Bible
“You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.”
topics: Truth
“The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility.”
“The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.”
topics: Truth
“The beginning for modern and postmodern people is the existence of God and the existence of truth. While these might seem like abstract issues, they are not in fact abstract. Rather, they are very practical. There is nothing more practical nor more basic than the conviction that there is truth that can be known. Without this conviction life becomes more and more intolerable, and more and more filled with alienation, the more consistently we live with the loss of truth.”
“With an impersonal beginning, morals really do not exist as morals. If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals (in however sophisticated a way this may be expressed).”
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Charles "Chuck" Wendell Colson is a Christian leader, cultural commentator, convicted felon, and author of at least 20 books, including several that have been recognized with ECPA Christian Book Awards.
As former Special Counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973, he is noted for being the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges. He was commonly named as one of the Watergate Seven, but was never charged with, or prosecuted for, any crime related to the Watergate break-in or its cover-up, although he did plead guilty to obstruction of justice in another case. He converted to Christianity in 1973, and the following year served seven months of a one-to-three year sentence in Alabama's Maxwell Prison.
After leaving prison, Colson founded Prison Fellowship Ministries in 1976, which has since become the world's largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families.
Colson's personal prison experience and his visits to more than 800 prisons throughout the world prompted concerns about the efficacy of the American criminal justice system and made him one of the nation's most influential voices for criminal justice reform. Colson's recommendations have brought together legislators from both political parties and divergent philosophical viewpoints.
Colson is a popular speaker and author. He has written 23 books, which collectively have sold more than five million copies. His autobiographical book, Born Again, was one of the nation's best-selling books of all genres in 1976 and was made into a feature-length film.
In 1991 Colson launched a daily radio feature called "BreakPoint," a unique and well-received attempt to provide a distinct Christian worldview on current issues and conflicts. The program is aired daily on some 1,000 outlets nationwide.