Quotes from Douglas Wilson

The root of every rebellion (in every culture) must always be identified as pride, and the lust for autonomy.

This is also the central reason why Christians do not observe the seventh day as their day of rest. Given the "everlasting" language of the Old Testament with regard to the sabbath, nothing short of a new creation could have moved that day from the seventh to the first. The seventh day was imbedded in the created order, and it would stay that way until the created order was overhauled, redone, re-created—which it was in the resurrection of Jesus.

The State is not the hope of the world; it is an institution grounded in the threat of violence, whether via capital punishments or petty bureaucratic intrusions.

There really is such a thing as racial sin, whether it is racial vainglory or racial animosity. Sin is always sin, and God always hates it. Racism as defined by God is wickedness. Those who make a pet idol out of their skin tone, or who revile others because of their skin tone are the kind of people who go to Hell. They will not inherit the kingdom (1 Cor. 6:9–10). Racism, understood biblically, is no bagatelle.

Because of his victory over the grave, Christ is now seated at the right hand of his Father, not for rest, but for rule. He is to reign from there until his enemies are made his footstool. Heaven must receive him, must hold him, until all is subdued in his name through the preaching of the gospel. Only then will he return, and destroy the last remaining enemy, which is death.

That's why moderns have to have hobbies. They can't find satisfaction in their money-earning work, so many seek creative satisfaction in model planes and trains.

husbands are commanded to love their wives as Christ loved the Church (Eph. 5:25). By the very nature of the case, this means that husbands are told to model or exhibit a federal relationship to their wives. The command to husbands is to love their wives as Christ loved His bride.

Christ is begotten from the dead and so all the nations of men belong to him.

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

all societies are theocratic, and the only thing that distinguishes them is which God they serve. I want a theocratic society that maximizes human liberty, including liberty of consciences, and since this is a good thing, this means that we have to worship the God who gives all good things, the true and living God.

When the wrath of God is revealed in the world, it is revealed as God "lets go" of a culture

This is the throne of David, occupied by Christ. Christ is the king of the world because of the resurrection and not as a result of the second coming. Christ is king now, and not just later.

The whole system of the penitentiary was built by the state to do the familial work of discipline, which the civil magistrate is not competent to do. The civil magistrate is assigned the sword (Rom. 13), not the spanking spoon.

Coming to worship the Lord in the "beauty of holiness" somehow gets translated into the "warmth of niceness." Almost entirely gone is the experience of being run through, pierced by the numinous.

Conservative activists who are surprised or indignant at the gross lopsidedness of the whole system are being foolish because they are expecting the devil to be a gentleman. They are expecting him to fight clean, and to avoid every form of fighting dirty. What makes us think he might do that?

And so we should define a tool in this way: something that is not part of a man's body which makes something that the man wants to do possible or easier.

If you reduce everything to skin color, you are like someone whose library catalog system puts all the red books over here, and all the gray ones over there. But what do the books say? What are they about? Shouldn't we file them in accordance with what they are saying?

It is one thing to hear truth, and agree with it. Many have come to believe these things simply because they are attracted to a system which is logically consistent. Or perhaps they are repelled by the shallowness of so much of our preaching and teaching today. Or they are the studious type, and like to read books by the Puritans." Martin went on. "But it is quite another thing to be given a vision of the glory of God and to be, like Job, undone by it.

The church has ministers—which was a gift of Jesus Christ Himself from Heaven—and the church also has a professional class, which may or may not be a gift from Heaven.

So when Adam found the beehive-knocking-down stick, he was wealthier than he was before. When a man purchases an app for ninety-nine cents, he is wealthier than he was before. Tools are technology, and technology is a form of wealth.

Those who minister under the New Covenant are to receive their living in the same way as the Levites did in the Old. What was that "way"? It was the tithe.

The unity our nation needs—and we do desperately need it—is not a "group hug" unity, and it is not that kind of unity with a Jesus shine put on it. The message is not "Jesus could help us to like each other better," although that would be a downstream consequence. The message we rather need to hear, and which the church needs to declare, is "Jesus forgives our sins.

In giving a gift, you are attached to it. In receiving a gift, the blessing that comes to the giver is your chief delight.

When we gather in family worship, we are not setting aside God's portion of the day, but are reminding the entire family that the entire day is His.