Quotes about Foolish

O foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is worthless?

How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.

Sirach calls the people who dwelt at Shechem a foolish people (Ecclus. 50:26), just as the Germans are accustomed to judge concerning the Swabians and the Bavarians. They were a proud people given to luxury.

For since through the sin of Adam we are sunk in blindness, so that we are wholly ignorant of God in all His will and counsel, it is not only foolish but also impossible of ourselves to prepare a light and a way by which to approach God and find out what He would have us do, as He says in the Book of Wisdom (9:13-14): "The thoughts of mortals are fearful and uncertain. For who among men can know what God wants?

Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.

How foolish it was of Christ to purchase for us at the price of his shed blood the Spirit we did not need, in order that we might be given a facility in keeping the commandments, who we already have one by nature.

Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.