123 Quotes by Nancy Pearcey

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.

America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge – to determine what are the accepted facts – wield the greatest social and political power.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal – ‘translatable’ into any cultural idiom.

In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter – which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking ‘enlightenment’ meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality – the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.

When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, ‘Don’t be distracted by the details. Cut to the core by asking, What is its idol?’ Whatever functions as its God substitute will shape everything else.

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.

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.

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities – in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.