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Tag: Chrestomathy

A Little Folding of the Hands to Rest

Posted on Friday, May 20, 2022Friday, May 20, 2022 by Douglas Wilson

“Christians aren’t perfect, just asleep on the couch.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 26

CategoriesEngaging the Culture TagsChrestomathySelected Quotes

This is My Shocked Face

Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2022Thursday, May 19, 2022 by Douglas Wilson

“Sinners don’t do well on Easy Street.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 25

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Inverse Sabbaths

Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2022Thursday, May 19, 2022 by Douglas Wilson

“We rest for one day and are refreshed and enabled to work before Him for the other six. But the modern man wants to work for five in order to play for two, and if the union negotiations are successful, work for four in order to play for three.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 25

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Drunk in the Gutter

Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2022Wednesday, May 18, 2022 by Douglas Wilson

“Although the memory is dim, we still refer today to ‘the Protestant work ethic.’ This is like an impoverished man in the gutter recalling how wealthy his great-grandfather was.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 23

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Rebellion in Seed Form

Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2022Tuesday, May 17, 2022 by Douglas Wilson

“To understand our culture’s inability to resist the claims of ‘gay activists,’ we must understand that they are reasoning from premises held by most of straight America, i.e. that sexual autonomy and sexual wisdom are consistent with one another.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 21

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Sin Is a Lousy Teacher

Posted on Monday, May 16, 2022Monday, May 16, 2022 by Douglas Wilson

“We have come to believe that experience in sin qualifies us to speak authoritatively. Christians should know better. The only man who can speak with full authority on the subject of sin is the Lord Jesus—who never sinned.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 20

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As In Our Own Time

Posted on Friday, May 13, 2022Friday, May 13, 2022 by Douglas Wilson

“Malcolm Muggeridge once quoted the wit who identified a similar problem in the time of Britain’s decline: ‘Everything was at sea except for the fleet.’”

The Cultural Mind, p. 17

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The Three Branches

Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2022Thursday, May 12, 2022 by Douglas Wilson

“One of the principal causes of grief in our broader culture today is that we have taken His instructions to Larry and assigned them to Moe, and the instructions given to Curly have been taken up by Larry.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 16

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Principled Thought

Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2022Wednesday, May 11, 2022 by Douglas Wilson

“As we look at the eternal antithesis between right and wrong as it looked when clothed in the details of another time, we will be equipped to see what can never be buried and what should be. We will see ideological fads and fashions, as well as the permanent things.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 14

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The Devil’s Stragglers

Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2022Tuesday, May 10, 2022 by Douglas Wilson

“The biblical pattern of evangelism was not at all like our modern method of picking off the devil’s stragglers, but rather a pattern of bringing the good news to household after household.”

The Cultural Mind, p. 8

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