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“There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian faith, the Christian faith would be necessarily false.”
― Ronald H. Nash

“Just as the moon derives the light it reflects from the sun, so the rational human mind derives a created ability to know from its origin, God.”
― Ronald H. Nash, The Word of God and the Mind of Man

“Every person has something that concerns her ultimately and whatever it is, that object of ultimate concern is that person's God”
― Ronald H. Nash, The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong With America's Schools

“If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every time you make a choice in life you're cheating.”
― Ronald H. Nash

“When any individual or collection of individuals acts in disobedience to the moral order, short-term gratification may be experienced; but such behavior produces an inevitable deterioration of the personality and leads to a long term loss of what is truly worthy.”
― Ronald H. Nash, The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong With America's Schools

“While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.”
― Ronald H. Nash, The Word of God and the Mind of Man

“The common Christian practice compartmentalizing knowledge into sacred and secular is unbiblical and leads to the dangerous notion that secular knowledge is somehow less important, worldly, and hence unfit for the spiritual Christian.”
― Ronald H. Nash, The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong With America's Schools

“If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant radicals want to claim that Christianity means whatever "Christian" today happen to believe and practice, be it pantheism, unitarianism, or sodomy. The Christian faith has suffered immeasurable harm because of the tendency of people to use the word "Christian" in a careless and non-historical way. Nothing in this argument would preclude liberal Protestants and Catholics from developing and practicing any religion they like.”
― Ronald H. Nash, The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong With America's Schools

“Efforts to remove the Christian faith from subjects like American history distort the content of the subject. Just as wrong is the idea that an evangelical textbook publisher should make it appear that evangelicals played a major role at every point in the history of the U.S. All such efforts are a travesty of history.”
― Ronald H. Nash, The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong With America's Schools

“Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.”
― Ronald H. Nash, The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong With America's Schools

“The world is not composed of religious and non-religious people. It is composed rather of religious people who have differing ultimate concerns, different gods, and who respond to the Living God in different ways.”
― Ronald H. Nash, The Closing of the American Heart: What's Really Wrong With America's Schools

“Reid asked the question Kant refused to ask, ‘why do all human beings have the same belief forming mechanisms?’ And Reid’s answer was ‘because God made us that way.”
― Ronald H. Nash

“OS AXIOMAS, EMBORA BÁSICOS PARA TODAS AS PROVAS, SÃO ELES MESMOS NÃO-PROVADOS OU ATÉ MESMO NÃO PROVÁVEIS... SE OS AXIOMAS SÃO NEGADOS, AS PROPOSIÇÕES DEDUZIDAS A PARTIR DOS AXIOMAS NÃO EXISTEM, VISTO QUE NÃO HÁ NADA A PARTIR DO QUE ELAS POSSAM SER DERIVADAS; A VALIDADE DO SISTEMA INTEIRO TORNA-SE SUSPEITO... OS AXIOMAS DE UMA PESSOA DETERMINAM OS SEUS TEOREMAS.”
― Ronald H. Nash, Worldviews in Conflict: Choosing Christianity in a World of Ideas