Weekly insights from Chuck Colson and great saints of the past and present

We are part of a long history of courageous and fruitful saints.

“The people who are drawn away from historic orthodoxy are missing the most exciting thing in life – a drama without equal in human history, the promise of incomparable joy. Is there anything more exciting than to know that you are part of God’s great drama that has been played out throughout history? That you are taking your place alongside the saints who have gone before you?”
-Chuck Colson, The Faith

“The troop which we have set forth
is the pillar of Christ’s kingdom;
there is much profit
in what we have searched out in books…

King of heaven, with its angels,
whose fame we do not hide:
every martyr whom we reckon up
has gone into [this poem’s] making.”
-Oengus mac Oengobann, The Martyrology of Oengus

“Each famous author of antiquity whom I recall places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of later generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.”
-Petrarch, Letters

“St. Athanasius and St. Augustine are much more up to date than many of our theological contemporaries. The reason is very simple: they were dealing with things and not with maps, they were concerned not so much with what man can believe as with what God had done for man.”
-Georges Florovsky, Bible, Church, Tradition: An Eastern Orthodox View

He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God…
-Psalm 78:5-7

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Or read the article, “Orthopraxy over Orthodoxy: Is Right Conduct All That Matters?” by T. M. Moore.

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