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A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.

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Christian, Rome, Two

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Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

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Kind, Persons

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Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

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Responsibility, Assumption, Masculinity

Douglas Wilson (2012). “Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families”, p.41, Harper Collins

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A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

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Men, Conquer, Surrender

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God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents.

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Ungrateful People, Heart, Thinking

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Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

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Agendas, Claims

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If boys don't learn, men won't know.

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Boys, Men, Knows

Douglas Wilson (2001). “Future Men”, p.8, Canon Press & Book Service

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For the people of God, the Word of God leaves pleasant bruises.

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People, Bruises, Word Of God

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Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits and starts will not get you anywhere close to the amount of reading you will need to do. It is far better to walk a mile a day than to run five miles every other month. Make time for reading, and make a daily habit of it, even if it is a relatively small daily habit.

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Running, Reading, Add

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God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

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Should Have, Has Beens, Picks

Douglas Wilson (1995). “Reforming Marriage”, p.140, Canon Press & Book Service

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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.

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Heart, Hands, Feet

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Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

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Art, Easy, Attractive

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How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife. Many can fake an attempt at keeping God’s standards in some external way. What we cannot fake is the resulting, distinctive aroma of pleasure to God. Most marriage books address the mere externals of marriage, without seeking to understand the heart issues. Godly marriages proceed from an obedient heart, and the greatest desire of an obedient heart is the glory of God, not the happiness of the household.

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Spiritual, Husband, Book

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Whether the Bible is Law or Gospel depends on the spiritual condition of the one hearing it. If someone is regenerate and loves God, then the whole Bible is Gospel to him. If someone is unregenerate and hates God, the whole Bible is Law to him, the whole thing condemns him.

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Spiritual, Hate, Law

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To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

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Doe, Conservative, Conserving

Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson (1998). “Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth”, p.110, Canon Press & Book Service

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If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

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Water, Pedals, Carbon

"Wilson-Till Debate". Credenda/Agenda Magazine (Vol. 7; No. 1), infidels.org.

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I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

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Distance, Believe, Hiking

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You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.

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Children, Abortion, Decision

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I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it.

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People, Enjoy, Glad

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But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

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Atheist, Hate, Moving

"Is Christianity Good for the World?". Debate between Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson, www.christianitytoday.com. May 25, 2007.

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Education is the process of selling someone on books.

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Education, Book, Selling

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Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

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Pride, Devil, Wealth

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I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

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Writing, Order, Voice

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If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).

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Law, Scripture, Ifs

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Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

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Stories, Kind, Persons

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