Proverbs Quotes

“But it can be extremely painful to learn the fear of the Lord. It is death to our narcissistic egos and self-assured opinions and superior neutrality. But we do not change for the better by turning inward. We change as we turn outward and upward to the Lord with an awakened sense of his sheer reality, his moral beauty, his eternal grandeur, infinitely above us but relevant to us.”
― Raymond C. Ortlund Jr., Proverbs: Wisdom That Works

“We get into wisdom the hard way, through the Lord’s instruction and discipline, through being chastened and corrected.”
― Raymond C. Ortlund Jr., Proverbs: Wisdom That Works