Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Douglas Wilson

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

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

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

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.

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

I enjoy talking to fans.

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

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

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

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

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.

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

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

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

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?

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

Use plants to bring life.

I know people don't think I work.

Inexpensive is good.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

How would you describe the spiritual aroma of your home? The source of this aroma is the relationship between husband and wife. Many can fake an attempt at keeping God’s standards in some external way. What we cannot fake is the resulting, distinctive aroma of pleasure to God. Most marriage books address the mere externals of marriage, without seeking to understand the heart issues. Godly marriages proceed from an obedient heart, and the greatest desire of an obedient heart is the glory of God, not the happiness of the household.

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

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

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

Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue.

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.

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.