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Tag: Chrestomathy

Probably There By Now

Posted on Thursday, July 8, 2010Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Take life as it comes. There it is. And here you are. I had a delightful picture of the meaning of Ecclesiastes just a few months ago. I was looking at the road which runs by the front of our property, and a fellow in a pick-up truck was headed industriously south. ‘Well,’ I thought. …

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Not About the Ducks

Posted on Wednesday, July 7, 2010Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

[On Eccl. 11:1] “The business of generosity is governed by the Lord with predictable results. Casting your bread on the water is not about feeding the ducks” (Joy at the End of the Tether, p. 102).

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Which is Hard to Do

Posted on Tuesday, July 6, 2010Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

[On Eccl. 10:15] “Some are overwhelmed by nothing. We see here some more understatement. That boy could get lost on an escalator” (Joy at the End of the Tether, p. 100).

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Folly at the Top

Posted on Friday, July 2, 2010Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Stupidity generally has the run of high places (Eccl. 10:5-7). Egalitarianism proceeds from the top, and a denial of nobility is the folly of nobles” (Joy at the End of the Tether, p. 98).

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For All Our Stupid Little Days

Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2010Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Turning to relationships, Solomon says that men are to live joyfully with their wives for all their stupid little days. We think this would sound terrible on an anniversary card — because we are governed more by sentiment than by wisdom. How is this possible? Apart from the grace of God it is not possible. …

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A Preposition That Makes All the Difference

Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2010Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“In this place, Solomon bluntly asserts that God controls all things. He does not say how God does it. Only a blockhead of the first order of magnitude would think to explain the way in which God reveals Himself through His works . . . We tend to assume, echoing Shakespeare, that the history of …

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Additional Options Are Available

Posted on Monday, June 28, 2010Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“If relativists seek after hollow minds, the godly must not respond by building minds of solid wood. Flexibility and prudence must not be confused with compromise and fear” (Joy at the End of the Tether, pp. 84-85).

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A Dead Mackerel by Moonlight

Posted on Friday, June 25, 2010Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The religiously self-righteous are, to use the great words of John Randolph, like a dead mackerel on the beach in the moonlight. They simultaneously ‘shine and stink.’ What religious men esteem is not what God esteems. Our prayers need to be prayed for. Our tears need washing. Our repentance needs to be repented of” (Joy …

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Free Fall

Posted on Thursday, June 24, 2010Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

[Discussing Eccl. 7:26 & Prov. 22:14] “Foolish men believe they have found sexual liberty at just the moment when God has seized them by their yearning little idol in order to dash them against the rocks. Their exhilarating sensation of liberty is only temporary — a free fall with death at the end of it” …

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As Godly as it Might Look to Some

Posted on Friday, June 4, 2010Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The upshot is that not everything ‘righteous’ is all that good. Not everything ‘sinful’ is all that bad. Only a fool jumps to pious and edifying conclusions” (Joy at the End of the Tether, p. 78).

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