Quotes about Foolish

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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

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

A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.

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

A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.