American Milk and Honey Quotes

“Now for sincere Christians in the West today, we are well aware how far short of biblical standards we fall, and so calling ourselves “the Christian West” kind of sticks in the throat. If we have read the Sermon on the Mount recently, it ought to stick in the throat.”
― Douglas Wilson, American Milk and Honey

“Envy is the invisible vice. In striking contrast to many other sins, nobody readily admits to being envious. Envy is petty and malicious. Envy is unattractive to just about everybody, and in order to operate openly in the world, it has to sail under false colors. Envy is clandestine; envy is sneaky. To admit to envy is to admit self-consciously to being tiny-souled, beef jerky-hearted, petty, and mean-spirited—and to admit this is dangerously close to repentance. To be out-and-out envious is to be clearly in the wrong, to confess yourself to be an inferior.”
― Douglas Wilson, American Milk and Honey

“It is not antisemitism to believe that Jews are sinful. This is simply orthodox Christianity. All of us are sinful. But antisemitism does believe that Jews are uniquely sinful, and particularly destructive. As a stand-alone dogma, this is nonsense.”
― Douglas Wilson, American Milk and Honey

“Some might say, in defense of their idolatrous commitment to an absolutist view of tribal identity, that Scripture tells us to stick to the bounds of our appointed habitation (Acts 17:26)—as though this exercise of God’s sovereignty applied only to remote northern villages in Finland, or to White Town, Oklahoma. But God’s sovereignty in this applies equally to Brooklyn, that hot pot of jumbled ethnicities.”
― Douglas Wilson, American Milk and Honey