Nancy Pearcey Quotes
All of science is largely formalized common sense.
Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.
Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.
I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.
For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.
The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines.
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
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.
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.
An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.
Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.
Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.
In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted.
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.
No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.
Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.
Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.
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.
Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.
Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.
When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.
The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate.
Artists are often the barometers of society.
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
No one lives like a robot. We all make choices from the moment we wake up in the morning.
You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.
In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it.
Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.
Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.