190 Quotes by Douglas Wilson

One of the temptations Christian men face is the temptation of thinking that all the obligations attending fatherhood are wrapped up in the simple task of "breadwinning". But there is a trap. Providing the money a household needs instead of providing yourself is a problem. The biblical approach is that of giving provision as a representation of yourself, and the difference between the two approaches is profound.

We need to make sure we are doing what Jesus said and not what we thought Jesus must have said. The textbook case against Christian activism can be made in one word—Prohibition—the word that would have made the Lord Jesus at Cana into a moonshiner felon. We did a great job there of setting aside the Word of God for the sake of our tradition

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

A right theology of wealth will equip us to handle tools rightly, doing everything we do to the glory of God.

Living and working in the presence of God is essential because what contitutes a truly productive person is the fact that they are labouring under the blessing of God.

If you have a smartphone, you have more wealth in your pocket than Nebuchadnezzar accumulated over the course of his lifetime. We have a responsibility to turn a profit on these astounding resources.

Husbandry is the careful management of resources - It is stewardship. And when someone undertakes to husband a woman, he must understand that it cannot be done unless he acts with authority.

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.

The Bible teaches us that lovemaking is to be honoured among Christians; to honour something means to esteem it highly. Those Christians who have reacted to public immorality by retreating into blue-nosed prudishness in their own bedrooms are very much part of the problem