Skin and Blood Quotes

“We are starting to slide when we start to judge our brother’s motives by whether or not he experiences the same gut response of reactive compassion to the outrage we are assigned to deal with. But a Christian nurse in Romania who has dedicated herself to caring for abandoned orphans with birth defects may never have heard of Roe v. Wade. She doesn’t need to.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“Someone might object that they have been taught that God loves sinners, including those who sin racially, unconditionally. No, God loves sinners in Christ. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. The only place where a sinner can possibly be a recipient of God’s love is in Christ. God’s love for sinners was bestowed and manifested in one place only, and that place was the cross of Christ. And so what happens to those who hate Christ, who despise His cross, who insist on turning their face away from Him? What happens to those who stand aloof from God’s solitary provision for sinners? They remain outside in the twilight—a twilight that is rapidly becoming the outer darkness. Where they stand, they hate God, and God hates them.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“To mock the color of a man’s skin is to defy the handiwork of God.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“I take it as a given that any conservative Christian who addresses cultural issues at all is not worth his salt if he does not get himself accused of racism. I am convinced that unless we are drawing that charge somehow, some way, then we are not doing our part to threaten the prevailing multicultural hooey. It is therefore important to incur the charge of racism. It is equally important that the charge be a slander and a falsehood.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“You cannot receive what you are unwilling for God to give to someone else also.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“When sinners fight with other sinners, the problem is never one of finding a plausible target. The problem with the spirit of accusation is that it is diabolical and destructive, not that it is inaccurate. The flaming darts of the evil one frequently find a suitable target. But there is a difference between the condemnation offered by the devil and the spirit of conviction offered by the Spirit of God. They both strike at the darling sin, but one with a cudgel and the other with a surgeon’s scalpel.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“The unity our nation needs—and we do desperately need it—is not a “group hug” unity, and it is not that kind of unity with a Jesus shine put on it. The message is not “Jesus could help us to like each other better,” although that would be a downstream consequence. The message we rather need to hear, and which the church needs to declare, is “Jesus forgives our sins.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“A racist, then, is someone who takes the scripturally insufficient grounds of racial differences to justify his own malice or petty pride.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“A malicious racist is someone who directs malice, spite, or hatred toward another human being of another race because that person belongs to that other race. A patronizing racist is someone who takes personal ego credit for any superiority he may have (whether real or imagined, usually imagined) over someone who belongs to another race.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“We live in a time when many are hyper about race, and so whenever you address the topic publicly, you are speaking to a public which includes the PC-police, race-hustlers, white-guiltists, sheer opportunists, men of good will who have been affected more than they ought to have been by the hustlers, and men of sound sense and good will. The challenge is to speak to the last group, genuinely, without giving an inch to the first four groups, and in such a way as to create opportunities for fruitful reconciliation with the penultimate group.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“How can you persuade a man whose livelihood depends upon him remaining unpersuaded?”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“We cannot carry everything, but God still insists that we carry something. We are to weep with those who weep (Rom. 12:15). God wants us to be a neighbor to those who suffer without aspiring to the position of a god in the lives of those who suffer. And in the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus defines neighbor as the one in front of us right now.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“There really is such a thing as racial sin, whether it is racial vainglory or racial animosity. Sin is always sin, and God always hates it. Racism as defined by God is wickedness. Those who make a pet idol out of their skin tone, or who revile others because of their skin tone are the kind of people who go to Hell. They will not inherit the kingdom (1 Cor. 6:9–10). Racism, understood biblically, is no bagatelle.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“If you reduce everything to skin color, you are like someone whose library catalog system puts all the red books over here, and all the gray ones over there. But what do the books say? What are they about? Shouldn’t we file them in accordance with what they are saying?”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“Some men carry their sin in front of them like a shield, and others drag it behind them, like a rope. With some men, we see the consequences of the sin right away. With others, we don’t see it for a good seventy-five years, and even then there is debate among the learned.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“When those who are privileged are made to feel guilty for those privileges, especially the ones that cannot be altered, a scam is being run on them. They are being worked over by guilt so that they will be a softer touch when the right time comes. Those who work them over like this are the envious practitioners of ressentiment. But the real way out of the cycle of racial animosities is for the privileged to repent of every form of pride, and for those lacking those privileges to repent of every form of envy.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“Hating Christ is just another phrase for “hating salvation,” or “hating deliverance.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“We are badly diseased with regard to vocabulary, grammar, and syntax, and what we desperately need is for someone to write an elegant little volume of sane English usage that will make us all whole again.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood