Whitehead pointed out that all really novel ideas have a certain aspect of
foolishness when first perceived (SMW 70).
Not exact matches
Oh,
when I say, «sad», I mean it is sad we ever bought into this religious
foolishness: this and so much more.
I wish I had a dollar for every time a Christian in this forum had disavowed the Old Testament
when it is used to show your religion's infantile
foolishness..
When the
foolishness and lies and inconsistencies and hypocrisy of christianity collides with facts, it comes apart at the seams and is easily seen for the scam that it is.
Your conscience (the speed limit signs) bore witness to this (speeding) fact, even before the police (minister), but
when he came, he stripped away the
foolishness of your actions to lay bare the reality of the matter.
And Bill is right
when he states that it is wrong to teach children such
foolishness!
When I read the Bible, I am amazed at how much it describes me: my heart, my sin, my
foolishness, my pride, my need for forgiveness, my desire for something better than this messed - up world.
A minority wanting
foolishness...
when they cry and are not heard they take their ball and go play somewhere else.
When I was first married, the counselor teaching the marriage class asked the very question: Does submission to the husband require submission to his
foolishness?
It was indeed
foolishness, but Abraham did not laugh at it like Sarah
when the promise was announced.
As my friend Dennis Venema noted, the Apostle Paul faced a somewhat similar conundrum
when he wrote, «Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and
foolishness to Gentiles.»
To believe in anything other is
foolishness, read the bible, study, we are living in the last days, and no matter who is running for president, what is written is what is going to happen, as it has been for some time... so
when our time comes the Lord is not going to ask, did you run for president?
The problem arises
when such
foolishness is portrayed as truth.
For Paul Ricoeur is correct
when he calls theodicy «
foolishness.»
It is interesting to see people laughing at the
foolishness of Fox News
when Megyn Kelly was factually correct in what she said.
Why would any Christian want to trust in the «
foolishness» of human - made science and medicine
when there is prayer and their invisible Jesus friend?
As the parable of the prodigal son makes clear, Abba rejoices in our coming back
when we finally acknowledge the
foolishness of our ways.
This battle started a few days before
when in a moment of mom
foolishness, I decided to switch him from a bottle to a sippy cup for milk.
The concepts of childishness versus
foolishness have been helpful to me, although without accompanying age - appropriate expectations (which are impossible to come by
when 18 month olds are lumped together with 8 year olds), these concepts can just as easily be misunderstood and damage family relationships.
Mine is Amy's Blam - General
Foolishness and people say I'm funny and they read it
when they want to laugh.
When it comes to the
foolishness of the film's older characters, Lucy doesn't seem to miss a trick.
We can see the contrasts of the «age of wisdom» and the «age of
foolishness»
when we compare those in education and business at every level refusing to encourage the growth of adaptive, agile, collaborative learning cultures and willing to settle for the status quo in learning that hasn't changed in decades.
Courage, cowardice,
foolishness, and high adventure marked the 1996 rival expeditions» efforts to reach the summit of Everest
when everything went terribly wrong.
As Quixote says of him: «at times his simpleness is so clever that deciding if he is simple or clever is a cause of no small pleasure; he doubts everything, and he believes everything,
when I think that he is about to plunge headlong into
foolishness, he comes out with perceptions that raise him to the skies.»
That will be the latest
when the government sees the
foolishness of this system (for tax income) and will cancel or castrate it.
When the full force of Peak Oil hits, those who have thrown out Jevon's Paradox as a reason not to conserve will finally understand the
foolishness of such reasoning.
The way in which the confidence interval bars extend as time goes on makes me suspect that the answer to this is «no» — which would mean that this
foolishness is set to continue forever, even
when we're burning up.