List of Nancy Pearcey Quotes

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.

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 Most Consistent Versions Of Materialism Deny The Reality Of Anything Beyond Matter - No Soul, No Spirit, No Will, No Mind. This Is Called Reductionism: Humans Are Reduced To Biochemical Machines.

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.

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.

Because Humans Are Capable Of Choosing, The First Cause That Created Them Must Have A Will.

In High School, I Came To Realize I Had A Second-hand Faith, Derived From My Parents And Family Background. I Had No Actual Reasons For Believing It.

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.

To Use Biblical Language, Those Who Exchange The Glory Of God For Something In Creation Will Also Exchange The Image Of God For Something In Creation - And Because It Is Something Less Than God, It Always Leads To A Lower View Of Humanity.

No One Lives Like A Robot. We All Make Choices From The Moment We Wake Up In The Morning.

Urban Areas Tend To Attract Members Of The 'knowledge Class' - People Who Work With Ideas, Data, Information

Materialists Try To Live In The Lower Story Non-material World Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs Material World Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts