Douglas Wilson Quotes
Top 96 wise famous quotes and sayings by Douglas Wilson
Douglas Wilson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.
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.
The fulfillment of the cultural mandate involves hard work, and men need to be hard in order to do the work.
You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.
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.
To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.
What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.
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.
Your writing advances a particular view of the world. Pretending that it does't just confuses everybody, starting with you.
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.
We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.
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.
Fortunately, given the state of criticism these days, lots of people miss - especially the feminists, who usually throw like a girl.
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.
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.
You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present ... you are not alone.
God blesses giving, so every use of language, down to the lowliest tweet, ought to be thought of as a gift to others.
Certain grammatical rules are arbitrary, but the need to have these arbitrary rules is not arbitrary.
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.
It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
The point of a true education is to, by the grace of God, learn how to refuse to let the soul get old.
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.
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.
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.
Relationships are supposed to mature. This maturing means growth and improvement, not the constant buzz of the initial rush.
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.
Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.