The fear of the LORD is the beginning and the foundation of all true religion.
Without a solemn awe and reverence of GOD there is no foothold for the more brilliant virtues.
He whose soul does not worship will never live
in holiness.
He is happy who feels a jealous fear of doing wrong. Holy
fear looks not only before it leaps, but even before it moves.
It is
afraid of error, afraid of neglecting duty, afraid of committing sin. It
fears ill company, loose talk, and questionable policy,
This does not
make a man wretched, but it brings him happiness.
The watchful sentinel
is happier than the soldier who sleeps at his post.
He who foreseeth
evil and escapes it is happier than he who walks carelessly on and is
destroyed.
Fear of GOD is a quiet grace which leads a man along a choice
road, of which it is written, "No lion shall be there, neither shall
any ravenous beast go up thereon."
Fear of the very appearance of evil
is a purifying principle, which enables a man, through the power of the
Holy Spirit, to keep his garments unspotted from the world.
Solomon had
tried both worldliness and holy fear: in the one he found vanity, in the
other happiness.
Let us not repeat his trial but abide by his verdict.
~Charles Spurgeon~
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