Douglas Wilson Quotes

Read the kind of stuff you wish you could write.

Oscar Wilde once defined a gentleman as one who never insulted somebody else accidentally.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.

Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.

Remember that Jesus has a body in this world. You are His hands and feet. But remember also that His hands and feet were pierced.

You have to put your own personality into your home. Do what you feel is you!

The fulfillment of the cultural mandate involves hard work, and men need to be hard in order to do the work.

It makes a difference whether Moses or Jeroboam writes the history curriculum.

You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.

I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

The trick is to state what we know in a recognizable fashion but in a way that is slightly off, in a way that arrests us.

Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

When the wrath of God is revealed in the world, it is revealed as God "lets go" of a culture,

To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

Inexpensive is good.

God's grace is a tsunami that will carry us all away, and deposit us in places we would not have anticipated - and all of them good.

We confess that Jesus is Lord. He is not simply Lord of a spiritual zone somewhere, but He is Lord of the nations.

Our good God, our overflowing God, our God of yes and amen, has always been able to promise far more than we are able to believe.

Use plants to bring life.

Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

The fact that you can't remember things doesn't mean that you haven't been shaped by them.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

Without a shared hermeneutic, authority is meaningless.

Read constantly. Read the kind of stuff you wish you could write. Read until your brain creaks.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).

The Anglo-Saxons had a great word for the right word, the word that you need right now, when another one simply would not do. That word is wordriht.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Fortunately, given the state of criticism these days, lots of people miss - especially the feminists, who usually throw like a girl.

If God doesn't want us to do it, He doesn't want us to get pleasure from thinking about doing it

Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

...as I have been thinking about this, I decided it might be better to be a broken man than a man who never risked breaking anything.

And so it easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a teenager to enter the kingdom of heaven listening to the Dave Matthews Band.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present ... you are not alone.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

I know people don't think I work.

Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul.

I enjoy talking to fans.

For the people of God, the Word of God leaves pleasant bruises.

God blesses giving, so every use of language, down to the lowliest tweet, ought to be thought of as a gift to others.

Plod diligently. Plodding generally goes in the same direction, while pottering doesn't.

I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.

Certain grammatical rules are arbitrary, but the need to have these arbitrary rules is not arbitrary.

Leftism is that impulse that wants to establish coercion and call it community. Apply

I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

When the parent is qualified to discipline, he probably does not feel like it, and when he feels like it, he is probably not qualified.

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.

Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

Criticism should be received as a kindness (Ps. 141:5).

The point of a true education is to, by the grace of God, learn how to refuse to let the soul get old.

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?

If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.

I have long said that good teaching consists in loving the subject you are teaching in the presence of students whom you also love.

They weren't really looking for repentance; postmodern irony would do. When

In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

If John had been paying close attention to Lester's face, he would have seen him go white, the way men do when they see a trap swinging shut on them.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

They had money - quite a bit of it, actually - but for them, money was just bullets.

Aside from your name on the cover of the book, your voice should be your most distinctive signature.

The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?

This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them.

Sins are like grapes; they come in bunches.

If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

Relationships are supposed to mature. This maturing means growth and improvement, not the constant buzz of the initial rush.

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

He who walks with the wise will be wise, Scripture saith, and he who walks with the witty will eventually start to pop off himself.

They don't know they're living in a glass house.

You read widely to be shaped, not so that you might be prepared to regurgitate.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

The independence of art from worldview and worldview concerns is a myth. Every work of art is produced within a framework of worldview assumptions.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

Reformers must remember always that religion shapes culture, and culture trumps politics.