Thursday, April 21, 2011

Douglas Wilson: Kindness to Wolves is Hostility to Sheep

"Sheep are to be kind to sheep. Shepherds are to be kind to sheep. But if a shepherd is kind to wolves, that is just another way to let them savage the sheep. Kindness to sheep is hostility to wolves. Kindness to wolves is hostility to sheep. All attempts to get the wolves and sheep together for some kind of ecumenical lovefest will only result in fat, contented wolves."

~ Douglas Wilson
A Serrated Edge
cited by Mark Driscoll in "How Sharp the Edge? Christ, Controversy and Cutting Words"
Chapter 4 in "The Power of Words and the Wonder of God" (eds. John Piper and Justin Taylor), p.87

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