A Quote by Solomon

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Solomon

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Beginning Fear Lord Wisdom

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Solomon
Royalty
990 BC - 931 BC

Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.

C. J. Anderson

The Bible itself claims that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom".

Craig Blomberg

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.

Kevin DeYoung

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

Charles Grandison Finney

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.

Clarence Darrow

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

Francis Chan

If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?

Doug Phillips

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Clarence Darrow

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

John Bunyan

Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.

Zora Neale Hurston

Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.