On the State and Church

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Colson points out that Lord Acton set forth proposals as to how to avoid a situation where government assumes absolute power: "No country can be free without religion. It [religion] creates and strengthens the notion of duty. If men are not kept straight by duty, they must be by fear. The more they are kept by fear, the less they are free. The greater the strength of duty, the greater the liberty."

-D.A. Carson, "The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism"