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Douglas Wilson Quotes | Quotes said by Douglas Wilson

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #1

    ...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 Quote #2

    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.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #3

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

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #4

    Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #5

    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 Quote #6

    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.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #7

    Education is the process of selling someone on books.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #8

    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...

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #9

    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.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #10

    I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #11

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

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #12

    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 Quote #13

    In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #14

    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 stop in Kentucky. Know what it smells like out there. If everything you write smells like a library, then your prospective audience will be limited to those who like the smell of libraries.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #15

    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 only turned away from her because our homes no longer have any hearths. Now we worship Motor Oil. If our rejection of the old idols were Christian repentance, God would bless it, but what is actually happening is that we are sinking below the level of the ancient pagans. But when we turn to Christ in truth, we find that He has ordained every day of marriage as a proclamation of his covenant with the church. A man who embraces what is expected of him will find a good wife and a welcoming hearth. He who loves his wife loves himself.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #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?

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #17

    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 Quote #18

    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 ... Zantistat 100, or something like that.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #19

    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?

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #20

    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 Quote #21

    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 Quote #22

    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.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #23

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

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #24

    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.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #25

    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 people, the lust of the flesh. Love is not an automatic virtue. Hatred is not an automatic vice. What's the direct object? from Debate In The Age Of The Glitter-Bomb in The City, Fall 2013.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #26

    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 Quote #27

    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 Quote #28

    Use plants to bring life.

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #29

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

  • Douglas Wilson Quote #30

    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.

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