Skip to content
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Canon Press
  • My Account
  • My Cart
  • Search

Blog & Mablog

Theology That Bites Back

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Audio
    • The Plodcast
    • Blog & Mablog Podcast
  • Video
    • Sermons
    • Ask Doug
    • Video Gallery
  • Books
    • Book List
    • Reading Log
  • About
    • The Proprietor
    • Blog Post Scripture Index
    • Critical Questions
    • Controversy Library
    • FAQs on Vexed Topics
    • Find me on Twitter
    • Find me on Facebook
  • Store
  • Cart
  • 0
 

Tag: Chrestomathy

Like Everybody Ought to be Doing

Posted on Monday, April 29, 2013Tuesday, April 30, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“He wasn’t thinking three chess moves ahead like a man in his position really ought to be doing” (Evangellyfish, p. 138).

Continue Reading

TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

It Shouldn’t Rinse Off

Posted on Monday, April 29, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Helping is not effeminate. If a man’s masculinity washes off in dishwater, then it was a pretty superficial masculinity” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 73).

Continue Reading

TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Their Cold Silvery Tips

Posted on Saturday, April 27, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“He was the kind of man who was entirely unaccustomed to looking at lies from this end of the barrel. He was now counting the rounds in their chambers. He could see their pointed, silvery tips” (Evangellyfish, p. 137).

Continue Reading

TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Inflated Enough to be the Ball

Posted on Saturday, April 27, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Brittle pride is not masculine. The male ego is, I am afraid, famous. I have long felt that a pastor has no better diagnostic test for how his congregation is doing spiritually than to arrange a co-ed volleyball game and just watch . . . When the male ego is on a rampage, the only …

Continue Reading

TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

About Like That

Posted on Thursday, April 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The rest of them were about as indignant as a room full of wet cats” (Evangellyfish, p. 133).

Continue Reading

TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Just Plain Vanilla Difficult

Posted on Thursday, April 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Many men think that they are being forthright and decisive when they are really just difficult to live with” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 72).

Continue Reading

TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

The Happy Kind

Posted on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“There had been three other crushes, probably that same year. That’s what junior high is for. And the earth would go around the sun ten entire times before he had finally met Cindi, who, as Puritans go, was as hot as it gets. And, John thought smugly to himself, for those who think that means …

Continue Reading

TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Just the Opposite, Actually

Posted on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Blaming is not leadership” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 72).

Continue Reading

TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Not Having a Vantage Point

Posted on Saturday, April 20, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Mystic Union, despite the informative crystals hanging from her ears, was not really in a position to critique the value of Mr. Peaborne’s intelligence” (Evangellyfish, p. 126).

Continue Reading

TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

For All Time

Posted on Saturday, April 20, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“If it is important that the first woman came from the first man, it is also important (obviously) that every man since, from Cain on down, has been born of a woman. To anchor the point for all time, our Lord Jesus was born of a woman” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 69).

Continue Reading

TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

Posts pagination

Previous page Page 1 … Page 237 Page 238 Page 239 … Page 357 Next page


About the Proprietor

What’s Done Been Wrote

Category Count

Tag Cloud

  • Apologetics in the Void
  • Auburn Avenue Stuff
  • Autobiographical Fragments
  • Book Review
  • Chrestomathy
  • Church Government
  • Church Year
  • Culture and Politics
  • Deadwood
  • Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Exhortation
  • Getting By
  • Goo-Mongers
  • Grace and Peace
  • History
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Liturgy and Worship
  • Local Politics
  • Mere Christendom
  • Moscow Diversity Cleansing
  • N.T. Wrights and Wrongs
  • No Quarter November
  • Obama Nation Building
  • On Scandal
  • Open Thread
  • Parable
  • Political Dualism
  • Politics
  • Postmodernism
  • Practical Christian Living
  • Preaching the Word
  • Psalms
  • Race and Culture
  • Second Battle of Tours
  • Selected Quotes
  • Sex and Culture
  • Shameless Appeals
  • Study Guide for the Institutes
  • Taking a Stroll on the Links
  • The Lord's Table
  • Thinking Straight
  • Topical
  • Troll Tuesday
  • Who Is Sufficient?
  • Your Friday Funny

Bookmarks

  • Ben Zornes
  • Free From Bitterness
  • Having Two Legs
  • KJV Parallel Bible
  • Not the Bee
  • Right Mind

Other Resources

  • Christ Church
  • Canon Press
  • New Saint Andrews College
  • Greyfriars Hall

Contact Doug

Submit A Letter to the Editor. Well-written, fair-minded letters may be interacted with in featured posts. Also, please mention the title of the post which you are addressing. Write a Letter
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Audio
    • The Plodcast
    • Blog & Mablog Podcast
  • Video
    • Sermons
    • Ask Doug
    • Video Gallery
  • Books
    • Book List
    • Reading Log
  • About
    • The Proprietor
    • Blog Post Scripture Index
    • Critical Questions
    • Controversy Library
    • FAQs on Vexed Topics
    • Find me on Twitter
    • Find me on Facebook
  • Store
  • Cart
  • 0
Copyright © 2025 - Blog & Mablog | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use
Close

Write a Letter

Letters
Submit A Letter to the Editor. Well-written, fair-minded letters may be interacted with in featured posts. Also, please mention the title of the post which you are addressing.
Loading