190 Quotes by Douglas Wilson

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.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It’s mass marketing.

Blaming public Christians for being ‘too political’ is like blaming Noah’s ark for being ’too wet.

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

It is quite true that Marx said that religion is the opium of the people. But of course we now know that Marxism is the crack cocaine of the people.

One of the most pernicious errors that has gotten abroad in the Christian community is the error of sentimentalism – the view that evil is to be evaded, rather than the more robust Christian view that it is to be conquered. The Christian believes that evil is there to be fought, the dragon is there to be slain. The sentimentalist believes that evil is to be resented.

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.

It’s a character I’ve created. Actually, that’s pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

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