Quotes about Insanity
Sin always overpromises and underdelivers, while righteousness pays dividends for eternity... Nothing is more illogical than sin. It's the epitome of poor judgment. It's temporary insanity with eternal consequences. And we have no alibi, save the cross of Jesus Christ.
— Mark Batterson
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
— Virginia Woolf
Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The present facts are that the world is insane and rages when we confess Christ and believe in Him.
— Martin Luther
Some things that religious people make a big deal of are rather pointless. Avoid the insanity.
— Rob Bell
Innocence is a kind of insanity
— Graham Greene
Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.
— RC Sproul
What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
— Graham Greene
But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.
— Acts 26:25
All men are driven by faith or fear—one or the other—for both are the same. Faith or fear is the expectation of an event that hasn't come to pass or the belief in something that cannot be seen or touched. A man of fear lives always on the edge of insanity. A man of faith lives in perpetual reward.
— Andy Andrews
The water in which the mystic swims is the same water a madman drowns in.
— Joseph Campbell
Nevertheless, if someone has an empty brain—and because of this is vexed by insanity, and is delirious—take the whole grains of wheat and cook them in water. Remove these cooked grains from the water, and place them around his whole head, tying a cloth over them. His brain will be reinvigorated by their vital fluid, and he may recover his health and strength. Do this until he returns to his right mind.
— Hildegard of Bingen