NOTE: As I am not able to find many Pro-Life quotes at the
moment, it will be Pro-Life Quote of the Fortnight, not week. Once I can get
more, I will change it back to once a week.
One of my
beloved Christian leaders, Chuck Colson passed away on this date, 21 April
2012. In loving memory of him, I will post the Christian Pro-Life Quote of the
Fortnight from him.
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Chuck Colson
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QUOTE: The pro-life agenda has no meaning apart from its being
rooted in absolute truth, in self-evident truths - truths that are true because
they're true, not because somebody says they are true.
AUTHOR: Chuck
Colson A.K.A Charles "Chuck"
Wendell Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012) was a Special
Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973, and later a noted
Evangelical Christian leader and cultural commentator.
Once known as
President Nixon's "hatchet man," Colson gained notoriety at the height
of the Watergate scandal, for being named as one of the Watergate Seven, and
pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon
Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg. In 1974, he served seven months in the
federal Maxwell Prison in Alabama as the first member of the Nixon
administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges.
Colson became a
Christian in 1973. His mid-life conversion to Christianity sparked a radical
life change that led to the founding of his non-profit ministry Prison
Fellowship and to a focus on Christian worldview teaching and training. Colson
was also a public speaker and the author of more than 30 books. He was the
founder and chairman of The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, which
is "a research, study, and networking center for growing in a Christian
worldview", and while he was alive included Colson's daily radio
commentary, BreakPoint, which was heard in its original format on more than
1,400 outlets across the United States.
Colson received 15
honorary doctorates, and in 1993 was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress
in Religion, the world's largest annual award (over US$1 million) in the
field of religion, given to a person who "has made an exceptional
contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension". He donated this
prize to further the work of Prison Fellowship, as he did all his speaking fees
and royalties. In 2008, he was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by
President George W. Bush.
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