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Quotes about Madness

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
- John Updike
Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.
- Mark Batterson
Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music. That old adage is certainly true of those who walk to the beat of God's drum. When you take your cues from the Holy Spirit, you'll do some things that will make people think you're crazy. So be it. Obey the whisper and see what God does.
- Mark Batterson
Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness.
- Martin Luther
They testify that nature is not changed but is preserved by God. But the stupid and crazy mob of monks has taught that parents, wives, and the world should be abandoned and that one should withdraw into a monastery. But what is to become of human society or finally of all life? Surely that was not sanctity or worship of God, as they have called it; it was satanic madness.
- Martin Luther
The present facts are that the world is insane and rages when we confess Christ and believe in Him.
- Martin Luther
Praying should help, remembering Bible verses should help. Rylan figured he must be doing it wrong because it was only making him worry more. So he forced his thoughts from those worries and found himself watching every move Maizy made. That was another kind of madness.
- Mary Connealy
The further north you go, the more people concentrate on themselves, and in some sort of northern madness (no doubt due to the lack of sun) they ascribe to themselves too much. They make themselves responsible for their actions.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Balaam's ass is the patron saint of apologists. Madness, as we shall see, is an appropriate term for the unreality of unbelief.
- Os Guinness
The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,
- Deuteronomy 28:28
You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
- Deuteronomy 28:34
So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.
- 1 Samuel 21:13