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Tag: Selected Quotes

A Pretty Big Relic

Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“It is hard to take any view seriouisly when it would result in enough pieces of the Virgin Mary’s veil to make a tent for Barnum and Bailey” (A Primer on Worship and Reformation, p. 8).

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Historians Make Choices

Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“It has sometimes been assumed that an accurate and objective history is one that simply records all the salient facts, as though video footage recording all event from sky cameras were somehow available at the university media center . . . But once it was realized, more recently, that all histories are selections made by …

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And a Lot of Them Too

Posted on Monday, May 21, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The Church in our nation is in a bad way. This comment is . . . directed at . . . the vibrant and active section that we call modern evangelicalism. Now of course there isn’t a problem with activity per se, but in the conservative and evangelical wing of the Church, vibrancy and activity …

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He Might Imitate Brave, Brave Sir Robin

Posted on Monday, May 21, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Civil governments rest upon force, and the gospel does not. How can these two principles ever abide together? There are some who have wanted the church to train its sons in the arts of politics, encouraging them to have their try at shinnying up the greasy pole of civil ambition. Others want the church to …

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High Hearted, Not High Arted

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

“High church Puritan thinking begins with the authority of the Word of God, and one of the first things we are told in Scripture is that God has established enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent. An understanding of this enmity, this antithesis, must undergird all that we do” …

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No Kidding

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

“I was once visiting my grandmother’s home in a tiny, sleepy farm town in Nebraska. While there I saw a bumper sticker that said, ‘You don’t see much in a small town, but what you hear makes up for it'” (5 Cities, p. xiii).

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Maturity Grows

Posted on Thursday, May 17, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“As Scripture tells the story of the world, it begins with a garden, and it ends that story with a Garden City” (5 Cities That Ruled the World, p. xi).

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A Great Thunderhead

Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“We were commissioned — I believe the word is ordained — to compel every manifestation of worldly power, glory, wisdom, and exaltation to yield to and obey the majesty of God, in full accordance with God’s Word. We were ordained to feed the sheep and drive away wolves, and all by God’s Word. We were …

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No Derivative Light

Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“We were not sent to preach about the perfections of a perfect by distant star, cool and twinkling against a black, velvet sky. We were not even sent to preach a moon, reflecting derivative light — we are not servants of the ruler of the evening. We were sent to preach a blazing sun, one …

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And Not Like the Scribes

Posted on Friday, May 11, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“What is it that overcomes the world? Is it not our faith (1 John 5:4)? We lament, Why does the world not believe? Well, when was the last time we commanded it to? When was the last time we spoke with authority, and not like the scribes?” (From With Calvin in the Theater of God, …

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