Fidelity Quotes

“if God doesn’t want us to do it, He doesn’t want us to get pleasure from thinking about doing it”
― Douglas Wilson, Fidelity: What It Means to Be a One-Woman Man

“We are not born again because we have repented and believed. Rather, we have repented and believed because God has given us the new birth. If the old heart is capable of repentance and belief, then a man does not need a new heart.”
― Douglas Wilson, Fidelity

“A wise man who loves the peaches at home does not want to shake any other trees.”
― Douglas Wilson, Fidelity

“We are not born again because we have repented and believed. Rather, we have repented and believed because God has given us the new birth. If the old heart is capable of repentance and belief, then a man does not need a new heart. He simply needs to continue to improve the old one.”
― Douglas Wilson, Fidelity

“Many men like to flatter themselves, thinking that the ease with which they might be seduced is somehow a masculine trait. In reality it is quite the reverse. At the heart of masculinity is the possession of authority and taking of initiative; by creation design a man is intended by God to be a head, a head willing to sacrifice himself. But part of our word seduction comes from the Latin word duco, which means “I lead.” This original meaning carries over in our use of the word seduction. When a man is seduced he is being led, and when a woman seduces she is leading. So when a man is seduced (whether by a living woman or a pornographic woman is immaterial) he is relinquishing and abdicating his assigned role. While he may still perform the male role in intercourse, he is no longer masculine in the relationship. He remains biologically male, but he is no longer being covenantally masculine.”
― Douglas Wilson, Fidelity

“A man cannot simultaneously want the salvation of God, and desire to remain in the sin from which God saves.”
― Douglas Wilson, Fidelity