The Closing of the American Heart Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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