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Former White House Counsel

Charles Colson, born on October 16, 1931, was a former White House Counsel in the United States. He served as the legal advisor to President Kennedy and later to President Nixon. He was convicted and imprisoned for his involvement in the Watergate scandal. After his release, Colson dedicated himself to the Christian renewal movement, becoming one of the leading Christian figures of his time.

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“Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.”

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Book:God and Government

Source: God and Government

“Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the Moral Majority, launched a slick media campaign attaching the Nazi slur to the religious right.”

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Book:Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson

Source: Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson

“Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.”

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“Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.”

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“People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about ideas thus degenerate into power struggles; we're left with no moral standard by which to measure the common good. For that matter, how can there be a 'common good' without an objective standard of truth?”

Source: The Sky Is Not Falling: Living Feaerlessly in These Turbulent Times

“... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the Truth but the very idea of truth itself.”

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

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Book:How Now Shall We Live?

Source: How Now Shall We Live?

About the Author

Born: October 16, 1931
Died: April 21, 2012
Known for: Former White House Counsel
Quotes: 95

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