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“Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy…” quote by Douglas Wilson — Download Open image

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

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“You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.”

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“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.”

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“We were in desperate straits. Christ came to “ransom captive Israel” and to “disperse the gloomy clouds of night.” In our insolence, we were…

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“This is why stories like this, with great evils in them, are necessary for children to read. Kids just got here—they are still figuring…

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

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“Every culture has blasphemy laws. They are not always called that, but no society allows citizens to rail against the reigning deity. In our…

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“We sometimes do not appreciate the magnitude of the problem here. How could the eternal Word of the eternal Father take on limits? How…

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

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“The fulfillment of the cultural mandate involves hard work, and men need to be hard in order to do the work.”

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