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Tag: Selected Quotes

And Now for a Little Perspective

Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“In virtually every town in our nation, there are a few people who are one hundred years old. At the time of this writing, they were born in 1909. When one of those individuals was a newborn, he or she could have been placed on the lap of another person, also one hundred years old. …

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Waiting Patiently

Posted on Monday, December 17, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The remaining four elders were confident of their pastor’s innocence for all the normal reasons, and they looked at him expectantly, waiting for the next reassuring evangelical cliche, like so many show poodles waiting for their treat” (Evangellyfish, p. 31).

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Against the Caricature

Posted on Monday, December 17, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Anyone who comes away from a careful reading of the apostle Paul’s teaching on marriage with the idea that the husband is ‘the boss’ and the wife is ‘the slave’ is someone not to be trusted with any text” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 8).

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Industrial Agrarianism

Posted on Monday, December 17, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The pitcher can’t stall indefinitely, but seventeen foul balls in a row take up time. It is not for nothing that the player run counterclockwise. The whole game is counterclockwise. But baseball is exciting because something might happen at any time” (5 Cities, pp. 170-171).

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Well On the Honest Side

Posted on Friday, December 14, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Rourke knew the department rules up and down, how real non-departmental police work was done, up and down, and was on the honest side of not too scrupulous” (Evangellyfish, p. 26).

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An Incarnational Loop

Posted on Friday, December 14, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“God has revealed the Trinity to us through a marriage. We learn about the triune God through an understanding of Christ and the Church, but we are also called to understand Christ and the Church by applying what we are taught about that to our own marriages . . .  We don’t really learn anything …

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A Skeezy Aura Then

Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Chad had been all aura then — charisma, smiles, and eyes that penetrated what you thought at first was your soul, but then just turned out to be your clothes” (Evangellyfish, p. 25).

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Coal and Diamond

Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The essence of this gift is that God took a ragtag bunch of sinners and transformed them into the fullness of His Son” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 6).

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Invisible Patience

Posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“And by ‘waited patiently,’ John had been a pastor long enough to know it meant he was actually waiting impatiently. Whenever he was waiting patiently, he didn’t notice that he was waiting patiently, and John was noticing” (Evangellyfish, p. 19).

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Love in Motion

Posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“God is not a static unit with static glory. The triune God is the One in whom there is an eternal and mutual bestowal and receiving of glory. As the Father loves the Son, and has loved us, so husbands and wives love one another” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 5).

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