Nancy Pearcey Quotes
Top 57 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nancy Pearcey
Nancy Pearcey Famous Quotes & Sayings
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As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to "humbleness." But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.
For when moral convictions are reduced to arbitrary preferences, then they can no longer be debated rationally.
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality.
The reason we are justified in trusting our minds is that God designed them to "fit" the world he created.
Only by demonstrating genuine compassion will Christians earn the right to offer a biblical alternative.
For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.
Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth.
If moral knowledge is impossible, then we are left with only political and legal measures to coerce people into compliance.
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
A biblically based worldview is capable of affirming the best insights of secular philosophies without ever falling into reductionism.
I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.
When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.