Quotes from Nancy Pearcey

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.

Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.

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.

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

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.

Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.

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.

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

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

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.

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.

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.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

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.

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly 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.

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

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.

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.

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

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.

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