Quotes about Folly

Music is made one of Satan's most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.

I was going to rise, do some typing and coffee drinking in the kitchen all day since at that time work, work was my dominant thought, not love- not the pain which impels me to write this even while I don't want to, the pain which won't be eased by writing of this but heightened, but which will be redeemed, and if only it were a dignified pain and could be placed somewhere other than this black gutter of shame and loss and noisemaking folly in the night... /The Subterraneans

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity.

for there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Better to meet a grizzly robbed of her cubs than a fool hellbent on folly.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.