'For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. " - 1 Corinthians 1:8
THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD IS WISER THAN MEN
"For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men."
- 1 Corinthians 1:25
FOOL, THIS NIGHT THY SOUL IS REQUIRED OF THEEE
"But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?"
- Luke 12:20
HAS NOT GOD MADE FOOLISH THE WISDOM OF THE WORLD?
"Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?"
- 1 Corinthians 1:20
THROUGH THE DEATH OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS
"Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned."
- A. C. Dixon (1854–1925) Baptist pastor, Bible Expositor, and Evangelist
THEIR FOOLISH HEARTS WERE DARKENED
"For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened."
- Romans 1:21
THE CROSS IS THE LIGHTENING ROD OF GRACE
"The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers."
- A. W. Tozer (1897-1963) American Pastor and Teacher
THE STUMBLING-BLOCK OF THE CROSS
"God walls the sea with sand. God clears the air with storms. God warms the earth with snow. He exalts us to heaven by the stumbling-block of the cross."
- Christopher Wordsworth (1807–1885) English Bishop of the Anglican Church
HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH FOOLISHNESS
"Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels."
- 2 Timothy 2:23
THE CROSS IS THE CENTER OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY
"The cross is the center of the world's history; the incarnation of Christ and the crucifixion of our Lord are the pivot round which all the events of the ages revolve. The testimony of Christ was the spirit of prophecy, and the growing power of Jesus is the spirit of history."
- Alexander MacLaren (1826-1919) President Baptist World Congress
YOU CAN BELIEVE A WHOLE LOT OF FOOLISH THINGS
"You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God."
- J. Vernon McGee (1904-1988) American Radio Bible Teacher
A FOOLISH MAN DESPISED HIS MOTHER
"A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother."
- Proverbs 15:20
THROUGH A CROSS AND A CRUCIFIED CHRIST
"Salvation comes through a cross and a crucified Christ."
- Andrew Murray (1794-1866) Scottish Missionary, Writer
A FOOLISH SON IS A SORROW TO HIS MOTHER
"If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth."
- Proverbs 30:32
SO PATIENT WITH MY FOOLISHNESS
"Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness."
- G. Campbell Morgan (1863-1945) British Evangelist, Preacher, Bible Teacher
A FOOLISH SON IS A GRIEF TO HIS FATHER
"A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him."
- Proverbs 17:25
IT IS AN INFINITELY FOOLISH THING
"If man is man, and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing; it is an infinitely foolish thing."
- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Episcopal Clergyman
WHEN THE FOOLISH TOOK THEIR LAMPS
"For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them."
- Matthew 25:3
THE CHRIST AND HIS CROSS ARE NOT SEPERABLE
"Christ and His cross are not separable in this life; howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there."
- Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) Scottish Presbyterian Pastor, Theologian
GOD CHOSE THE FOOLISH IN THE WORLD
"But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong."
- 1 Corinthians 1:27
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