Top 100 Douglas Wilson Quotes
#1. There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.
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#2. They had money - quite a bit of it, actually - but for them, money was just bullets.
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#3. God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been
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#4. In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.
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#5. Whenever two unbelievers quarrel, the may both say some very insightful things about the unsightly habits of the other.
The postmodernists are very good at pointing out the pretensions of the modernists. And the modernists are very good at pointing out the incoherence of the postmodernists.
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#6. Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?
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#7. I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.
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#8. We live in a narcissistic age, which means that many want to have the praise that comes from having read, without the antecedent labor of actually reading.
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#9. Without the new birth, all the doctrinal and liturgical work in the world is just the reorganization of dead materials, instead of what it is described in the Bible as being, which is the organization and discipleship of living materials.
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#10. I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.
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#11. Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.
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#12. One of the staples of discussion about basic aesthetic principles is that art has to exist for its own self and cannot be prostituted to advance any particular cause or point of view. Perfect nonsense, of course, but that doesn't keep it from being repeated ad nauseam.
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#13. Oscar Wilde once defined a gentleman as one who never insulted somebody else accidentally.
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#14. It makes a difference whether Moses or Jeroboam writes the history curriculum.
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#15. We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.
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#16. How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?
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#17. They always wanted to do it for the children. But they never do, turns out, and the children go home crying, not having received the candy they were promised.
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#18. Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.
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#19. The point is not to read widely so that your voice will be sort of a mutt descended from them all. The point is to read widely enough to know what delights you, what you would like to imitate, and what you want to stay away from.
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#20. Christian men ought not refrain from the sexual pollutions that surround us because they object to lovemaking; they refrain because they object to the wanton vandalism of it. Our culture is doing to sex what people who chew with their mouths open do to food.
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#21. There are two basic approaches to life- one in which the world is a world of scarcity, given to us by the skinflint god, and the other in which the world is a world of endless possibilities, bestowed on us by a loving Father.
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#22. Read constantly. Read the kind of stuff you wish you could write. Read until your brain creaks.
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#23. Leftism is that impulse that wants to establish coercion and call it community. Apply
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#24. Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul.
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#25. Education is the process of selling someone on books.
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#26. Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
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#27. Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.
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#28. A lot of aspiring writers quote the right people, but they do so like Mary Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. They quote Austen like Mary quoted her eighteenth-century bromides, and were Austen here to see them do it, she'd slap them right into her next book, and it wouldn't be pretty.
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#29. we have somehow assumed that the interests of speed, or some other function of athletic performance, somehow set aside the requirements of propriety and modesty. In the ancient world, athletes competed naked, and in the modern world, in some events, they might as well be.
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#31. Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.
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#33. Offensive Takeaway Point: We should look for a way to stop responding to initiatives of the adversary and start behaving in such a way that they have to figure out how to respond to us. Take the initiative.
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#34. 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.
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#35. When the wrath of God is revealed in the world, it is revealed as God "lets go" of a culture,
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#36. It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
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#37. We confess that Jesus is Lord. He is not simply Lord of a spiritual zone somewhere, but He is Lord of the nations.
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#38. I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.
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#39. I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.
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#40. And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses (Neh. 4:14).
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#41. Once young girls used to play with baby dolls, seeing themselves in the role of the nurturing mother; now they can be seen playing with Barbie dolls, seeing themselves in the place of the doll. And of course, the doll is both pretty and stacked. The pressure is on and stays on.
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#42. Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.
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#44. 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.
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#45. The church has ministers - which was a gift of Jesus Christ Himself from Heaven - and the church also has a professional class, which may or may not be a gift from Heaven.
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#46. Without a shared hermeneutic, authority is meaningless.
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#47. Whether the Bible is Law or Gospel depends on the spiritual condition of the one hearing it. If someone is regenerate and loves God, then the whole Bible is Gospel to him. If someone is unregenerate and hates God, the whole Bible is Law to him, the whole thing condemns him.
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#48. Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.
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#49. Collect and read dictionaries. Take a couple of minutes every day to read a page. Highlight fun words you didn't know before and write them down somewhere else.
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#50. Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.
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#51. I have long said that good teaching consists in loving the subject you are teaching in the presence of students whom you also love.
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#52. Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.
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#53. 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.
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#54. Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.
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#55. Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.
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#56. I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.
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#57. A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.
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#58. Most religious people use their religion as a source of good advice, and the good advice only condemns them when they fail. This mistake is even made by professing Christians,
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#59. Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.
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#60. The TSA must think we're mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding us a fertilizing agent that comes from the south end of a north-bound cow.
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#61. Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.
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#62. You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.
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#63. In Scripture, doctrine is practical and high doctrine is highly practical. Those who disparage doctrine for the sake of practice are impractical. Those who disparage practice for the sake of doctrine are unskilled in the word of righteousness. We are never to put apart what God has joined together.
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#65. A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.
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#66. The independence of art from worldview and worldview concerns is a myth. Every work of art is produced within a framework of worldview assumptions.
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#69. The point of a true education is to, by the grace of God, learn how to refuse to let the soul get old.
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#70. To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.
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#71. Reformers must remember always that religion shapes culture, and culture trumps politics.
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#73. ...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.
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#74. I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.
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#75. Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.
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#76. The Biblical educator must not only have a Christian understanding of the material, he must have a Biblical understanding of the student. If he does not, then the result will be a hybrid Christian methodology employed to achieve a humanistic goal.
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#77. You have to put your own personality into your home. Do what you feel is you!
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#78. When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.
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#79. She wasn't really going to church anywhere, but she remained a contemporary evangelical to the back teeth. She had lost her faith while still managing to hang on to all the platitudes.
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#80. Criticism should be received as a kindness (Ps. 141:5).
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#81. Pain concentrates the mind. Pain tethers you to this world, and the rope is a stout one. But at the same time, the grace of God enables you to look along the pain, to look down the entire length of the trial, and to see the purpose and point of it all.
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#82. Propaganda (things to be propagated) is inescapable. It is not *whether* certain values will be propagated, but rather, *which* values will be propagated.
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#83. The reign of Christ has been established. The nations who object to this settlement trouble the decrees of God about as much as dogs barking at the moon trouble the moon.
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#84. If the athletic program is not helping the kids understand God, man, sin, and salvation, then the program is failing, regardless of the win/loss record. But the same thing is true of the classroom program.
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#85. Be at peace with being lousy for a while. Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out.
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#86. That's why moderns have to have hobbies. They can't find satisfaction in their money-earning work, so many seek creative satisfaction in model planes and trains.
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#87. Had he ever told Cindi about that junior high crush? Probably. What did it matter? There had been three other crushes, probably that same year. That's what junior high is for.
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#88. If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.
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#89. Certain grammatical rules are arbitrary, but the need to have these arbitrary rules is not arbitrary.
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#90. For the people of God, the Word of God leaves pleasant bruises.
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#91. Aside from your name on the cover of the book, your voice should be your most distinctive signature.
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#93. If God doesn't want us to do it, He doesn't want us to get pleasure from thinking about doing it
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#94. 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.
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#95. 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.
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#96. We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.
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#97. Plod diligently. Plodding generally goes in the same direction, while pottering doesn't.
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#98. Unbelief squashes; faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside, and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of what he did got in the way. And this is how to do it better next time.
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#99. Jesus came into the world to save us from our sins, and our political sins are not exempt from this salvation. Why would our political sins (which frequently have been among our foulest sins) be excluded? Jesus
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#100. In a world of spiritual eunuchs, it is good to find a man who is more than simply male.
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