bible and theology on Fickleness

Loving and forgiving God, we confess that we find it easier to follow the crowd than to follow you. We seek the praise of other humans, rather than seeking to give you joy with our faithfulness. When ...

Loving God, we confess today: We don’t even know what love truly is. We talk about love when we talk about favorite television shows and foods. We talk about love as if it happens to us. We describe l...

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

None is a fool always, everyone sometimes.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignora...

Fools are without number.

Only a fool thinks he can fool God.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

If you keep a bow always bent, it will break presently; but if you let it go slack, it will be the fitter for use when you want it.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding...

The so-called innocence of children is more a matter of weakness of limb, than purity of heart.

Fatherlike he tends and spares us Well our feeble frame he knows In his hand he gently bears us Rescues us from all our foes

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

The Hebrew word for “fool” is very close to the Hebrew for “noble,” with only one letter different, and it is sometimes only in the outcome of their lives that the people considered noble by the peopl...

Faith isn’t a feeling; it’s a choice to trust God even when the road ahead seems uncertain.

He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in 'religion' mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.... When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making ...

Merciful God, if we are honest, we recognize that every fiber of our being is impacted by our imperfections and sins. Even our acts of obedience and faithfulness are overshadowed by our tendencies tow...

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is.

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Joy’s trick is to supply Dry lips with what can cool and slake, Leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache Nothing can satisfy.

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

The first type of fool in the Bible is the character that might be called the fool proper. Folly in a fallen world is obviously partly relativistic, and we are always wise to say, “Says who?” Differen...