God and Governing Quotes

“Some have asserted that the universe was self-generated. This violates, however, a primary law of logic: the law of non-contradiction that says the universe cannot be itself and the thing it creates at the same time.”
― Charles Colson, God and Governing: Reflections on Ethics, Virtue, and Statesmanship

“Big bang theory delivers a near fatal blow to naturalistic philosophy, for the naturalistic credo regards reality as an unbroken sequence of cause and effect that can be traced back endlessly. But the big bang represents a sudden discontinuity in the chain of cause and effect. It means science can trace events back in time only to a certain point; at the moment of the big bang explosion, science reaches an abrupt break, an absolute barrier.”
― Charles Colson, God and Governing: Reflections on Ethics, Virtue, and Statesmanship

“Faith requires no surrender of the intellect.”
― Charles Colson, God and Governing: Reflections on Ethics, Virtue, and Statesmanship

“Men and women do not give up their comfort---and certainly not their lives---for what they know to be a lie.”
― Charles Colson, God and Governing: Reflections on Ethics, Virtue, and Statesmanship

“Men will cling to life with dogged resolve while working meaningfully, even if that work supports their hated captors. But purposeless labor soon snaps the mind.”
― Charles Colson, God and Governing: Reflections on Ethics, Virtue, and Statesmanship

“Separation of church and state doesn't mean keeping God out of everything that truly matters.”
― Charles Colson, God and Governing: Reflections on Ethics, Virtue, and Statesmanship