Holy Fool Quotes

#1. A modern story of Mullah Nasrudin, the Sufi teacher and holy fool, tells of him entering a bank and trying to cash a check. The teller asks him to please identify himself. Nasrudin reaches in his pocket and pulls out a small mirror. Looking into it, he says, "Yep, that's me all right." Meditation

Jack Kornfield

#2. I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things,

Lady G

#3. I'm just a holy fool

Lady Gaga

#4. We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.

Georges Bernanos

#5. Only a fool will accept a gift you cannot keep. You can't keep anything from the world but salvation is wise and everlasting. John 3:16

Felix Wantang

#6. There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple.

Anzia Yezierska

#7. It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

Ma Ying-jeou

#8. Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.

Jennifer Granholm

#9. The Fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so Holy.

William Blake

#10. Be her and be yourself, simultaneously. Be outrageous. Being pious is easy and pleasant, go ahead and make yourself hated.

Evgenij Vodolazkin

#11. Let me tell you something, nobody's holy. The world is full of sinners so don't let the uniform fool you, they are just as corrupt and evil as the rest of us.

Anonymous

#12. I'm truly obsessed by clothes. I just buy clothes all the time.

Justin Hawkins

#13. The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still.

Martin Luther

#14. The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

Aldrich Ames

#15. To strengthen what is right in a fool is a holy task

I-Ching

#16. A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#17. You live
under the Sign
of the Bear, who flounders through chaos
in his starry blubber:
poor fool,
poor forked branch
of applewood, you will feel all your bones break
over the holy waters you will never drink.

Galway Kinnell

#18. Why do we struggle so much? Why do we demand so much of life, when the happiest moments are when nothing is happening at all?

Chris Beckett

#19. Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Pat Riley

#20. It was at that point ... that I remembered the importance of surrender, of letting go and allowing nature to weave its magic.

Bronnie Ware

#21. Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly.

Bhagat Kabir

#22. Is this different? Does love make lovemaking better? Does Nick feel this holy consummation, this wonder and beauty, this eternity, the way I do? Or is sex simply like this, designed by Nature to fool us all into multiplying?

Beatriz Williams

#23. He who stands still, goes backward.

Lille Lehmann