Quote

For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

Nancy Pearcey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nancy Pearcey
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
Author
Philosopher
Nancy Randolph Pearcey
Levels
Problem
Women
Desertion
Today
Dominance
Many
Male
Much
Males
Level
Personal

More quotes by Nancy Pearcey

Image
There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?
Nancy Pearcey
Image
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
As with every aspect of our sanctification, the renewal of the mind may be painful and difficult. It requires hard work and discipline, inspired by a sacrificial love for Christ and a burning desire to build up His body, the Church. Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
Many people operate as though the definition of faith were, Don't ask questions, just believe. They quote Jesus himself, who taught his followers to have the faith of a child (Mark 10:15). But I once heard Francis Schaeffer respond by saying, Don't you realize how many questions children ask?
Nancy Pearcey
Image
All of science is largely formalized common sense.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
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.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
The best organizations regard the nurturing of their employees as a spiritual mandate.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
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.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out into the world unprepared for the intellectual battles they are about to encounter, especially on secular college campuses.
Nancy Pearcey