Quotes about Folly

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

This is enormous folly, and ignorance of Christian life and faith, when a man seeks, without faith, to be justified and saved by works.

The point of trying to understand the cross better is not so that we can congratulate ourselves for having solved an intellectual crossword puzzle, but so that God's power and wisdom may work in us, through us, and out into the world that still regards Jesus's crucifixion as weakness and folly.

God and his love, and of multiple layers of human folly, which rings true at all kinds of levels of human knowledge and experience.

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Doubt can certainly leave us empty and frightened, but that is precisely the benefit of doubt: it exposes the folly that strong faith means you need to "know what you believe," that the more faith you "have," the more certain you are.

My lord should pay no attention to this scoundrel Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means Fool, and folly accompanies him. I, your servant, did not see my lord’s young men whom you sent.

Are not their tent cords pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?’

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.