Petter

“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

“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

“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

“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