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1 " Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil. "
― Douglas Wilson
2 " Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which morality will be imposed. "
― Douglas Wilson , The Case for Classical Christian Education
3 " 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 are just a mist. We should trust Him. It was not that long ago that Jesus came and it will not be that long before He returns. "
4 " 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. "
5 " ...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 , Black & Tan: A Collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America
6 " 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. "
7 " 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... "
8 " 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 up the costs of production through coercive means, destroys industries. Organized labor is piracy without the boats and eye patches. Why would anybody want to celebrate organized labor? "
9 " Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry. "
10 " They had money - quite a bit of it, actually - but for them, money was just bullets. "
― Douglas Wilson , Flags Out Front: A Contrarian's Daydream
11 " If boys don't learn, men won't know. "
12 " 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. "
― Douglas Wilson , Paideia of God: & Other Essays on Education
13 " 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. "
14 " 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 terms of ten teenage boys trying to dunk a basketball: equity means that they all face the same ten-foot standard, and only two them them can do it — equity thus usually means differences in outcome. Egalitarianism wants equality of outcome, and there is only one way to get that — lower the net. Sameness of outcome requires differences in the standards. "
― Douglas Wilson , For a Glory and a Covering: A Practical Theology of Marriage
15 " 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, the doubt as to the value of teaching arithmetic in Christian schools falls out of the picture. Of course arithmetic must be taught in a Christian school. It cannot be taught anywhere else. "
16 " 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 far beyond this. A student writes an essay on a sunset, let us say, and the teacher writes 87 percent at the top of that paper. What he is saying, in effect, is that there is a mathematical metaphor operative here. The figure of 87 is to 100 what this submitted essay is . . . to what? What on earth is this supposed to mean? "
17 " To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people. "
18 " If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce. "
19 " 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. "
20 " 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. "
― Douglas Wilson , Reforming Marriage
