190 Quotes by Douglas Wilson

Unbelief squashes; faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside, and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of what he did got in the way. “And this is how to do it better next time.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act – if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where’s the excitement?

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?

The issue is not the thing, but rather our approach to the thing. Same as with food. Our temptation is to objectify the problem, trying to locate sin in the stuff – in the tobacco, in the alcohol, in the gun, in the donut – instead of where sin is actually located, which is right under the breastbone.

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

A creedal church is one in which the words I believe in God the Father Almighty provoke tears of gladness in strong men. A creed muttered in nominal unbelief is oxymoronic. The word creed comes from “credo,” I believe. A creedal church believes certain things to be true, and acts as though truth mattered.

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design – fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

The Anglo-Saxons had a great word for the right word, the word that you need right now, when another one simply would not do. That word is wordriht.

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren’t ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that’s too bad.