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I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
The present facts are that the world is insane and rages when we confess Christ and believe in Him.
- Martin Luther
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.
- Peter Kreeft
Then Achish said to his servants, “Look, you can see that the man is insane! Why have you brought him to me?
- 1 Samuel 21:14
But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.
- Acts 26:25
Once in a mental hospital, a person grows used to the the freedom that exists in the world of insanity and becomes addicted to it.
- Paulo Coelho
I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there." "We've all felt that" "And all of us, one way or another, are insane.
- Paulo Coelho
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
For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.
- Herman Melville
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