Nancy Pearcey Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“All of science is largely formalized common sense.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Common Sense #Common

“The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine desire to submit our minds to God's Word - and then to use that knowledge in service to others.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Letting Go #Motivation #Pride

“The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Order #Mind #Assumption

“Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#People #Competition #Mediocrity

“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.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Church #Messages #Said

“The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Philosophy #Data #Tests

“Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Enlightenment #Substitutes #Thinker

“Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Views #Robots #Humbleness

“Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As theologian Robert Letham writes, “Only a God who is triune can be personal.... A solitary monad cannot love and, since it cannot love, neither can it be a person.” Therefore it “has no way to explain or even to maintain human personhood.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Writing #Love Is #Way

“Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Feelings #Mind #World

“Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Games #Church #Groups

“Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Trying #World #Facts

“To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Idols #Phrases #Consequence

“Atheists often denounce Christianity as harsh and negative. But in reality it offers a much more positive view of the human person than any competing religion or worldview. It is so appealing that adherents of other worldviews keep free-loading the parts they like best.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Atheist #Reality #Views

“When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Reality #Giving #People

“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.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Idols #Function

“Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Classroom #Monopoly #Worldview

“Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#School #Challenges #Students

“The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Defense #Obsolete

“The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Spiritual #Organization #Employee

“If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Suicide #Intellectual #Want

“As with every aspect of our sanctification, the renewal of the mind may be painful and difficult. It requires hard work and discipline, inspired by a sacrificial love for Christ and a burning desire to build up His body, the Church. Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Christian #Mean #Hard Work

“A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Doe #Materialistic #Ruling

“No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Teacher #School #Government

“Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Fall #Giving #Soul

“Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Religious #Culture #Evolution

“The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Religious #Reality #Spurgeon

“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.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Christian #Real #Mean

“In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Religious #Odds #Historical

“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.”
-- Nancy Pearcey

#Children #Skills #Giving