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Douglas Wilson  Quotes
Know something about the world, and by this I mean the world outside of books. This might require joining the Marines, or working on an oil rig or as a hash slinger at a truck...

—Douglas Wilson

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Writing-Advice
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Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

—Douglas Wilson

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

—Douglas Wilson

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StoryStorytelling
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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...

—Douglas Wilson

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FamilyLoveSex
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Only a madman would try to market headache medicine today under the name John’s Headache Pills. This would be insufficiently techno-marvelous. No, the name must sound like it carne out of a laboratory yesterday …...

—Douglas Wilson

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

—Douglas Wilson

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DevilGodPride
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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.

—Douglas Wilson

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CultureFeminismMen
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There is no virtue or vice in a transitive verb, everything depends on the direct object. ‘I LOVE’ could be virtuous or not – you could love ice cream, Jesus, child porn, my country, hurting...

—Douglas Wilson

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Good-And-EvilVirtue
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Education is the process of selling someone on books.

—Douglas Wilson

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Education
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If boys don’t learn, men won’t know.

—Douglas Wilson

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ManhoodMen
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Christian equality can be described as equity, or even-handedness. Egalitarianism, in contrast, demands sameness, or equality of outcome. These two visions of equality are about as comparable as dry and wet. Think of it in...

—Douglas Wilson

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EgalitarianismEqualityEquity
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…if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.

—Douglas Wilson

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Politics
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Organized labor is organized to take control of an asset away from its rightful owners without paying for it. Organized labor is organization of property by those who don’t own it. Organized labor, by driving...

—Douglas Wilson

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LaborLabor-DayOrganized-Labor
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The ground for the necessity of Christian schools lies in this very thing, that no fact can be known unless it be known in its relationship to God. And once this point is clearly seen,...

—Douglas Wilson

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EducationEducationalSchool
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The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital punishments or petty bureaucratic intrusions.

—Douglas Wilson

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BureaucracyPoliticsStatism
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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...

—Douglas Wilson

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Now it makes sense, for example, if the children are taking a vocabulary test of 100 words, and one of the kids misses thirteen of them, to give him an 87 percent. But we go...

—Douglas Wilson

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

—Douglas Wilson

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ConservativismPolitics
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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.

—Douglas Wilson

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Atheism
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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...

—Douglas Wilson

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

—Douglas Wilson

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ModernismPoliticsRevolution
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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...

—Douglas Wilson

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BibleGospelLaw
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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....

—Douglas Wilson

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GirlsWomanhood
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When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.

—Douglas Wilson

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

—Douglas Wilson

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We are like fruitflies, measuring everything in terms of our own lifespan. But since our lifespans are so short, our perspective is entirely wrong.God, who inhabits eternity, sees things differently. He knows that our lives...

—Douglas Wilson

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Days-Gone-ByEternityTime
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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...

—Douglas Wilson

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

—Douglas Wilson

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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.

—Douglas Wilson

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CreativeHobbyModernism
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Modernity has abandoned the household gods, not because we have rejected the idolatry as all Christians must, but because we have rejected the very idea of the household. We no longer worship Vesta, but have...

—Douglas Wilson

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

—Douglas Wilson

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MedievalTechnology
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