Douglas Wilson quotes:

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.

You have to put your own personality into your home. Do what you feel is you!

Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

They don't know they're living in a glass house.

I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald McDonald House or Broadway Cares or DIFFA, but you can help RAISE money or give your time and talents.

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue.

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.

Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul.

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

Whether the Bible is Law or Gospel depends on the spiritual condition of the one hearing it. If someone is regenerate and loves God, then the whole Bible is Gospel to him. If someone is unregenerate and hates God, the whole Bible is Law to him, the whole thing condemns him.

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.

That's why moderns have to have hobbies. They can't find satisfaction in their money-earning work, so many seek creative satisfaction in model planes and trains.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

Once young girls used to play with baby dolls, seeing themselves in the role of the nurturing mother; now they can be seen playing with Barbie dolls, seeing themselves in the place of the doll. And of course, the doll is both pretty and stacked. The pressure is on and stays on.

The TSA must think we're mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding us a fertilizing agent that comes from the south end of a north-bound cow.

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

Use plants to bring life.

I know people don't think I work.

I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it.

A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church.

Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits and starts will not get you anywhere close to the amount of reading you will need to do. It is far better to walk a mile a day than to run five miles every other month. Make time for reading, and make a daily habit of it, even if it is a relatively small daily habit.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Use plants to bring life

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

I enjoy talking to fans.

I know people dont think I work.

In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed." This is what should be sought in Christian schools, not just teaching, but effective teaching. Christian content alone is insufficient. It must be presented in a certain way, and that way cannot be reduced to technique. Nevertheless, God has graciously made it possible to bring people the truth by how the truth is presented.

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

You don't have the right to be left alone with that abortion decision. The child is present...you are not alone.

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

For the people of God, the Word of God leaves pleasant bruises.

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?

If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

If you keep the law of God, you are not described in Scripture as a pinched legalist, but rather as happy (Prov. 29:18).

A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.