“I have said earlier in these discussions that the works of the flesh are manifest (Gal. 5:19). We know that the works of righteousness are also manifest (John 3:21). All this is simply to say that midnight and high noon are not that difficult to tell apart” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 72).

“We do well to peruse our great catechisms and creeds and textbooks and not be carried away by the pedagogical mush to which we are in these days subjected. But if we rely upon such a reservoir of knowledge we are in a dangerous and slippery position. Thought and life are too complex to be adequately met by any such reservoir. The means God has provided for every exigency that may arise the Word of God itself” (John Murray, Collected Writings, Vol. 1, 7).

“When the eternal Word of God became a man, He thereby honored the material world and did so in a very permanent way” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 64).

“Systematic theology is nothing less than remembering what you read in other passages while you are reading this passage” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 53).

“Worldview thinking radiated from him [G.K. Chesterton] like heat from a stove. That is what systematic thinking should look like, but it hardly ever does” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 53).

Hope thou in God (Psalm 42:11).

“In order to speak as the Bible speaks, we must get more comfortable with biblical paradox and less comfortable with the tidiness of our own systems” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 49).

“Converting unconverted covenant members is something that God specializes in, and we need to be careful not to resist His work by claiming it is somehow unnecessary” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 48).

“The church is nothing without individual conversions, but the church is not nothing but individual conversions. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 47).

“The new life has political results but is not achieved by political means, which, incidentally, includes ecclesiastical politics. The experience of the new life will always, of necessity, be at the very center of God’s work in the work, because that is what He is doing here” (Douglas Wilson, Against the Church, 43).