Quotes from Nancy Pearcey

a self-creating universe is a contradiction in terms.

Africa at the start of the twentieth century, Christians were only 9 percent of the population; today they are 44 percent.

We can call this view liberalism, employing a definition by the self-described liberal philosopher Peter Berkowitz. In his words, "Each generation of liberal thinkers" focuses on "dimensions of life previously regarded as fixed by nature," then seeks to show that in reality they are "subject to human will and remaking.

We sin because we want something in the created world more than we want the Creator.

A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.

The ordered patterns in nature are not logically necessary. They are contingent on God's will.

Randall concludes, "When science seemed to take God out of the universe, men had to deify some natural force, like 'evolution.

Hegel taught that no idea is true in an absolute or timeless sense.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

if everything is historically relative, then so is the idea of historicism itself.

We've limited Christianity to salvation and sanctification," he said. But "Christianity is the truth about everything.

Lecrae's message is that we do not need to be afraid of cultural differences because Christianity has the resources to speak to every culture.

It is a tragedy to see the medical profession move from suicide prevention to suicide facilitation. The right-to-die movement presents euthanasia as compassionate. But disparaging human life as expendable is not compassionate. The term 'compassion' literally means 'to suffer with' (com=with, passion=suffer). True compassion means being willing to suffer on behalf of others, loving them enough to bear the burden of caring for them.

Christian art should grow out of the robust confidence that nothing is unredeemable—that Jesus himself entered into the darkest levels of human experience and transformed them into sources of life and renewal.

Why is it considered acceptable to carve up a person's body to match their inner sense of self but bigoted to help them change their sense of self to match their body?

An idol is anything in the created order that is put in the place of God.

Long before pragmatism was developed into a full-blown American philosophy (see chapter 8), it had already been formulated and practiced by evangelical leaders.

If reductionism is like trying to stuff all of reality into a box, we could say the problem is that the box is always too small. Idols deify some part of the created order. But no matter which part they choose, a part is always too limited to explain the whole. The universe is too complex and multi-dimensional to fit into a box composed of just one part. Invariably something will stick out. Something will not fit into its restricted conceptual categories.

As Paul says in Romans, if you reject the biblical God, you will deify something within the created order.

Philosopher John Gray, though himself an atheist, writes that "when atheism becomes a political project, the invariable result is an ersatz religion that can only be maintained by tyrannical means" 64—by secret police and death camps.

It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).

The humane position, and the biblical position, is that individuals are under no obligation to affirm as true something they have not adequately examined. Moreover, if after careful examination, a claim is falsified by the evidence, it should be rejected.

Tomé não foi persuadido a olhar para dentro, para o seu coração, mas a avaliar provas no mundo externo. Ele, então, fez um compromisso com base em fatos relevantes, não por causa de uma ausência de fatos e certamente não contra eles.

No cerne da condição humana, poderíamos dizer, há um pecado epistemológico – a recusa em reconhecer o que pode ser conhecido a respeito de Deus e, então, em responder ou reagir de forma adequada: "Tendo conhecimento de Deus, não o glorificaram como Deus, nem lhe deram graças" (Rm 1.21). Eles se envolveram em cegueira deliberada.