123 Quotes by Nancy Pearcey

The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage – to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we ’enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

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.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one’s worldview.

A part is always too limited to explain the whole. You might picture a worldview as trying to stuff the entire universe into a box. Invariably, something will stick out of the box. Its categories are too “small” to explain the world.

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 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.

Urban areas tend to attract members of the ‘knowledge class’ – people who work with ideas, data, information.

If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, “Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get.”