Quotes from Nancy Pearcey

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.

For when moral convictions are reduced to arbitrary preferences, then they can no longer be debated rationally.

Christians should be on the front lines fighting to liberate society from its captivity to secular worldviews.

Because all things were created by a single divine mind, all truth forms a single, coherent, mutually consistent system. Truth is unified and universal.

The contemporary design argument does not rest, however, on gaps in our knowledge but rather on the growth in our knowledge due to the revolution in molecular biology. Information theory has taught us that nature exhibits two types of order. The first type is produced by natural causes-shiny crystals, hexagonal patterns in oil, whirlpools in the bathtub. But the second type-the complex structure of the DNA molecule-is not produced by any natural processes known to experience.

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel near the Second Great Awakening. They were dubbed 'God's light artillery'.

Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As theologian Robert Letham writes, "Only a God who is triune can be personal.… A solitary monad cannot love and, since it cannot love, neither can it be a person." Therefore it "has no way to explain or even to maintain human personhood.

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.

It is becoming clear that much of what used to be considered common sense is not common at all. Instead it is a product of the West's distinctively Christian heritage. Today it can no longer be simply assumed. It has to be intentionally articulated and defended.

Lived out consistently, postmodernism leads to complicity with evil and injustice.

That to which your heart clings and entrusts itself is, I say, really your God.