“It is with reason that the fear of the Lord is styled the beginning of wisdom, because the soul commences to taste God when she begins to fear Him. You fear the justice and power of God; God then is sweet to you, for fear is a species of savor. Fear sketches wisdom in the soul, because, as riches make a man rich, and knowledge renders him learned, so fear makes him become truly wise. Learning prepares our minds for the knowledge of spiritual things, but vanity would easily glide into knowledge, if fear did not prevent it. Hence, fear is well named the beginning of wisdom.” (Quoted by Jean Baptiste de Saint Jure, in his published work “The spiritual man; or, The spiritual life reduced to its first principles, tr. by a member of the Order of mercy, authoress of ‘The life of mother McCauley’”, pub. 1878, pg. 139) St. Bernard of Clairvaux