Father Hunger Quotes

“Sins are like grapes; they come in bunches.”
― Douglas Wilson, Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families

“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function,”
― Douglas Wilson, Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families

“God could have made every creature just exactly the same, all of us round and shiny like little ball bearings one centimeter across, with all the invisible serial numbers distinguishing us one from another hidden away in the decrees and secret counsels of God. And there we would all be, pretty much all of us really bored. But what He actually did was make the gaudiest show ever, which started at the beginning of our story when Adam looked at Eve for the first time and, as already noted, started speaking poetry.”
― Douglas Wilson, Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families

“By playing these games about “arbitrary” gender roles, we have not succeeded in outlawing masculinity, but we have robbed it of much of its vocabulary. There are not very many acceptable ways to speak “masculine” anymore. We are all in denial, and the results are not pretty.”
― Douglas Wilson, Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families

“When the wrath of God is revealed in the world, it is revealed as God “lets go” of a culture,”
― Douglas Wilson, Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families