Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.

The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God's Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.

In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.

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.

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

You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

God is truth and is to be worshiped, not because it's convenient, makes us feel good, or is therapeutic.