Quotes About Foolishness

Love is being stupid together.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I'm coming to the conclusion that to be used by God we must be weak and foolish rather than all-conquering heroes. I reckon God is sick and tired of people posing as overcomers with permanent grins, as if they somehow avoided the Fall and went hang-gliding instead. He needs us weak and childish to be used by him.

To love women. To pleasure them, to make them laugh. To be foolish for them. To protect them. To respect them. To listen to them. They are life-givers. To live is to love them.

We're waist deep in the Big MuddyAnd the big fool says to push on.

It's too easy to be stupid, and too easy to wake up in the morning with the feeling you said something that had more to do with want and despair than need.

You believe what you must in order to stave off the conviction that it's all a tale told by an idiot

Doubt strips away distraction so we can see more clearly the inadequacies of whom we think God is and move us from the foolishness of thinking that our god is the God.

Queuing to pick up their Darwin Award

Sheer stupidity — that much underrated force in history.

But you did not even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters goodbye. Now you have done a foolish thing.

Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

“You have acted foolishly,” Samuel declared. “You have not kept the command that the LORD your God gave you; if you had, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.

About ten days later, the LORD struck Nabal dead.

Where could I ever take my shame? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel! Please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

Now someone told David: “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” So David pleaded, “O LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!”

After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. Now I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”

For the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, therefore, you will be at war.”

He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die!

He leads counselors away barefoot and makes fools of judges.

“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?