"Foolishness" means behaving or thinking in a silly or unintelligent way, lacking good judgment or common sense. It refers to doing something that is not wise or sensible.
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If I'm president for X number of years, and there's a wave of change in the next election cycle, my like - minded justices serve as an enduring bulwark against out of control
foolishness of those who don't agree with my own irrefutable wisdom.
This is representative of an age of
foolishness in which the sacrifices are made by learners who desire and need to learn, but see no motivation in learning that stems from curiosity and a very human love of learning.
The Protestant ethic had the power for much of U.S. history to keep America's financial establishment from taking such
foolishness with perfect seriousness.
Unfortunately, the film relies
on foolishness instead of clever plot devices to progress — part of why later scenes feel rushed.
The reason you follow Christ is that you are a sheep that doesn't have the ability to take a long hard look
at foolishness that has been passed off as a belief system.
... But it pleased God that
by foolishness of preaching the gospel of salvation through Jesus Christ His son, mankind should be saved: that whoever belives, and puts his trust in Him, will not perish but have eternal life.
Needless to say the judge upheld the master's
foolishness about limitations act and with that the judge helped to steal the poor woman's house.
Mankind in his natural state is unable to understand the Bible and unable to receive the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (1 Cor.
I have as much patience for that type of
foolishness as it seems you do.
Yesterday, I shared my
own foolishness with you all in an altruistic attempt to spare the lovely readers and listeners of this column the needless torment I had inflicted on myself by engaging earnestly with the relentless tales of players in and players out at Anfield.
1Cr 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that
perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
I can not believe the utter
foolishness coming from the Xbox camp about PS + and PS NOW which is clearly still in beta.
If I can help just one person come to reason and forget about all of this
religious foolishness then my work here is done.
To believe in something that has no, none whatsoever evidence to back it up is just
total foolishness!
The Scandal Of The Cross «To the Jews a scandal, to the
Greeks foolishness, but to those called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.»
For all we know, it was the greatest number of fish ever caught on the Sea of Galilee in one day, and Peter did it in one cast of the net — all because he followed Jesus
into foolishness.
• It's worth noting that the name of Walsh's character, Visser, is never mentioned in the movie, likely in homage to Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op, who is at one point described, like Visser, as «a monster... without any
human foolishness like love in him.»
This is what «Marketing 2.0» is all about, People... Cool friends of cool friends doing cool shit and sharing it with other cool folk, for fun and to make an honest living - at least, that's what it means to me... Social Objects, Baby... Crazy,
Deranged Foolishness at its finest, Baby... Yeah, Baby... Baby... Baby...
If the king had had only the slightest shadow of a suspicion that his quarry would attempt such
foolishness then there can be little doubt that the infant Jesus would have been taken and murdered by the soldiers of this tyrannical ruler.
And may God bless you with
enough foolishness... to believe that you can make a difference in the world, so that you can do what others claim can not be done, to bring justice and kindness to all our children and the poor.
No doubt a great deal of
foolishness does go on in the name of interpreting «prophetic Scripture.»
But as the
absolute foolishness of those days has been exposed, lenders have gone completely in the opposite direction, turning back the mortgage clock a good ten years.
It's just
more foolishness to make a bunch of other 60 - watt thinkers like themselves believe they are the dawn.
If my neighbor is bent on
foolishness which evokes sadness, or hatred which can be hurtful, I can only imagine the low level of love in his life.
«I think there's a lot of
foolishness going on,» Gray says as he stands before a bank of 10 TV cameras and a couple of dozen journalists.
I am shaking my head as I write this, in amazement at the pure
infantile foolishness that enables you to believe in something so patently false.
I know that the message of enemy - love strikes those who are suffering as
complete foolishness, but to those who have forgiven, it is a gift of liberation and life.
For reasons known only to Mr. Smickle, and which arguably go beyond
mere foolishness, he was posing in this manner with a loaded handgun in one hand.
Whitehead pointed out that all really novel ideas have a certain aspect of
foolishness when first perceived (SMW 70).
«I told him it was
plain foolishness for a boy to go all the way through law school just to talk on the radio,» says Julius Israel.
unfortunately priests and preachers employ so
much foolishness (hocus - pocus) that it feeds the atheists.
As I noted elsewhere, this
continuing foolishness given the dropping advertising revenue (not slots, but the amount they charge based on viewership) is actually kinda fun to watch.
I racked up about $ 10K in credit card debt in my first job, through
sheer foolishness.
The crushing defeat of the charter referendum in Massachusetts is at least partially explained by the
political foolishness of narrowly focusing the charter movement on a certain type of school to serve disadvantaged students.
We seem to have stepped into the magical sphere — Shakespeare rules over it and Ernst Lubitsch and Preston Sturges are denizens — where profound human
foolishness becomes a form of grace.»
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