Future Men Quotes

“Men are created to exercise dominion over the earth; they are fitted to be husbandman, tilling the earth; they are equipped to be saviors, delivering from evil; they are expected to grow up into wisdom, becoming sages; and they are designed to reflect the image and glory of God. Some of these following terms may seem somewhat cumbersome, but let’s call them lords, husbandmen, saviors, sages, and glory-bearers.”
― Douglas Wilson, Future Men

“And so it easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a teenager to enter the kingdom of heaven listening to the Dave Matthews Band.”
― Douglas Wilson, Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants

“Unbelief squashes; faith teaches. Faith takes a boy aside, and tells him that this part of what he did was good, while that other part of what he did got in the way. “And this is how to do it better next time.”
― Douglas Wilson, Future Men

“But with all this said, wine was given to gladden the heart of man (Ps. 104:15), and one of the duties a father has is that of teaching his son to drink.”
― Douglas Wilson, Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants

“Boys must learn to say, regularly—to God, to others, and to themselves—that they were wrong when they were wrong, and that they were responsible when they were responsible. When they do this, they will discover that authority naturally flows to those who take responsibility.”
― Douglas Wilson, Future Men

“the presence or absence of faith reveals whether or not we have a biblical doctrine of our future. Unbelief is always anchored to the present, while faith looks at that which is unseen.”
― Douglas Wilson, Future Men

“used to describe some occult practice, related to drug use—potions, drugs, and so forth. This means that the translation of sorcery in Galatians 5:20 is probably a good one. But even today, the connection between drug use and occult practices is not entirely severed. But even when there is no occultism, this does not make the prohibition of pharmakeia irrelevant to the modern “secular” drug user. Ancient drug use was”
― Douglas Wilson, Future Men

“boys must be instructed on how to grow up into glory and how to fulfill their responsibility to be representative, responsible, and holy.”
― Douglas Wilson, Future Men

“The word translated sober here is nepho, and it means to “be self-possessed under all circumstances.”
― Douglas Wilson, Future Men

“we have somehow assumed that the interests of speed, or some other function of athletic performance, somehow set aside the requirements of propriety and modesty. In the ancient world, athletes competed naked, and in the modern world, in some events, they might as well be.”
― Douglas Wilson, Future Men

“Faith is not wishful thinking; faith apprehends the promises of God found in Scripture. “The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee” (Ps. 102:28). Faith sees a son as established, and the work of faith goes on to establish him. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
― Douglas Wilson, Future Men