Tara

“In a book called Why Americans Hate Politics, E. J. Dionne says, “Americans hate politics as it is now practiced because we have lost all sense of the public good.”4 Without the conviction that there exists an objective good, public debate disintegrates into a cacophony of warring voices.”
― Nancy Pearcey, Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning

“No experimental cures. No life-prolonging – and misery-prolonging – chemotherapy. As far as Colton was concerned, he had made his plans and said his goodbyes and was now letting the tide go out, ever so slightly; the waves came less far up the beach; the sea got further and further from view, bit by bit.”
― Jenny Colgan, Christmas on the Island

“Voddie Baucham, a former all-American football player, offers a catchy athletic metaphor. “Sending young people into the world without a biblical worldview,” he says, “is like sending a ballplayer onto the field without a playbook.”17 Team spirit is not enough. An athlete needs to comprehend the game’s strategy.”
― Nancy Pearcey, Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning

“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.”
― Nancy Pearcey, Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning