We must be the same person in private and in public. Only the Christian worldview gives us the basis for this kind of integrity.

The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

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.

Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are invariably translated into 'Colson's professed religious experience.' I discovered that one major U.S. daily, as a matter of policy, will not print the two words Jesus Christ together; when combined, the editor says, it represents an editorial judgment.

Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.