Quotes by Nancy Pearcey

About Nancy Pearcey:

Nancy Randolph Pearcey is an American evangelical author on the Christian worldview.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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The first step in conforming our intellect to God's truth is to die to our vanity, pride, and craving for respect from colleagues and the public. We must let go of the worldly motivations that drive us, praying to be motivated solely by a genuine des...

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

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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.

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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.

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

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

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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.

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Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.

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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 po...

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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.

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

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Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameNancy Pearcey
  • DescriptionAmerican philosopher
  • Born1952