Quotes by Douglas Wilson

The ground for the necessity of Christian schools lies in this very thing, that no fact can be known unless it be known in its relationship to God. And once this point is clearly seen, the doubt as to the value of teaching arithmetic in Christian schools falls out of the picture. Of course arithmetic must be taught in a Christian school. It cannot be taught anywhere else.

Now it makes sense, for example, if the children are taking a vocabulary test of 100 words, and one of the kids misses thirteen of them, to give him an 87 percent. But we go far beyond this. A student writes an essay on a sunset, let us say, and the teacher writes 87 percent at the top of that paper. What he is saying, in effect, is that there is a mathematical metaphor operative here. The figure of 87 is to 100 what this submitted essay is . . . to what? What on earth is this supposed to mean?

To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.

If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.

Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands.

Once young girls used to play with baby dolls, seeing themselves in the role of the nurturing mother; now they can be seen playing with Barbie dolls, seeing themselves in the place of the doll. And of course, the doll is both pretty and stacked. The pressure is on and stays on.

Know something about the world, and by this I mean the world outside of books. This might require joining the Marines, or working on an oil rig or as a hash slinger at a truck stop in Kentucky. Know what it smells like out there. If everything you write smells like a library, then your prospective audience will be limited to those who like the smell of libraries.

There is no virtue or vice in a transitive verb, everything depends on the direct object. I LOVE could be virtuous or not - you could love ice cream, Jesus, child porn, my country, hurting people, the lust of the flesh. Love is not an automatic virtue. Hatred is not an automatic vice. Whats the direct object? from Debate In The Age Of The Glitter-Bomb in The City, Fall 2013.

Only a madman would try to market headache medicine today under the name Johns Headache Pills. This would be insufficiently techno-marvelous. No, the name must sound like it carne out of a laboratory yesterday ... Zantistat 100, or something like that.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

Im opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I dont waver.

In two days, its hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They werent ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and thats too bad.

Being in the design industry, Ive tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

Use plants to bring life.