Brandon Adkison > Brandon's Quotes

“Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.”
― Douglas Wilson

“Education is the process of selling someone on books. ”
― Douglas Wilson

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

“If boys don't learn, men won't know.”
― Douglas Wilson

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him”
― John Piper

“One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.”
― John Piper

“There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!”
― Abraham Kuyper

“The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird