Ronald H. Nash Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.

Ronald H. Nash

#4. 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

#5. The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.

Ronald H. Nash

#6. 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

#7. The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

Ronald H. Nash

#8. 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

#9. Even though most people who reject Christianity treat it as a refuge for enemies of reason, the truth is that there may be no worldview in the history of the human race that has a higher regard for the laws of logic.

Ronald H. Nash

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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