Douglas Wilson Quotes

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.

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

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

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

A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

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

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

Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits and starts will not get you anywhere close to the amount of reading you will need to do. It is far better to walk a mile a day than to run five miles every other month. Make time for reading, and make a daily habit of it, even if it is a relatively small daily habit.

Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands.

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents.

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

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

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.

How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife. Many can fake an attempt at keeping God’s standards in some external way. What we cannot fake is the resulting, distinctive aroma of pleasure to God. Most marriage books address the mere externals of marriage, without seeking to understand the heart issues. Godly marriages proceed from an obedient heart, and the greatest desire of an obedient heart is the glory of God, not the happiness of the household.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

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

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

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

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