Quotes related to Romans 12:2
postmodernists are just as concerned about objective truth as anyone else. Dallas Willard comments, "I have noticed that the most emphatic of Postmodernists turn coldly modern when discussing their fringe benefits or other matters that make a great difference to their practical life." 35 If we use the metaphor that a worldview is a mental map, postmodernists keep walking off their map. It is too small to account for the full geography of who they are.
— Nancy Pearcey
This is the tragedy of the postmodern age. The things that matter most in life, that are necessary for a humane society—ideals like moral freedom, human dignity, even loving our own children—have been reduced to nothing but useful fictions. They are tossed into the attic, which becomes a convenient dumping ground for anything that a materialist paradigm cannot explain.
— Nancy Pearcey
In every field, Christians must learn critical thinking skills. Otherwise, we may simply absorb idol-based philosophies from the intellectual atmosphere.
— Nancy Pearcey
You can be utterly confident that any non-biblical worldview will be too "small" to account for all of reality.
— Nancy Pearcey
False ideas are the greatest obstacle to the reception of the gospel."13 Not pop culture. Not consumerism. Not moral temptation. False ideas.
— Nancy Pearcey
Redemption consists primarily of casting out our mental idols and turning back to the true God. And when we do that, we will experience His transforming power renewing every aspect of our lives. To talk of a Christian Worldview is simply another way of saying that when we are redeemed, our entire outlook on life is re-centered on God and rebuilt on His revealed truth.
— Nancy Pearcey
A worldview can be replaced only by another worldview.
— Nancy Pearcey
The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.
— Nancy Pearcey
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.
— Nancy Pearcey
It urges us to set our minds "on things that are on earth," not on things above (Col. 3:2).
— Nancy Pearcey
We must reject the presumption that holding Christian beliefs disqualifies us as "biased," while the philosophical naturalists get a free pass by presenting their position as "unbiased" and "rational." Most of all, we need to liberate Christianity from the two-story division that has reduced it to an upper-story private experience, and learn how to restore it to the status of objective truth.
— Nancy Pearcey
The biblical worldview fulfills both the requirements of human reason and the yearnings of the human spirit.
— Nancy Pearcey