Here are four insightful quotes from well-known spiritual leaders and thinkers about the Book of Proverbs.

John Chrysostom

“Proverbs trains the soul by little sentences, as a father trains a child—shaping character one line at a time.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“In Proverbs we learn that wisdom is not speculation but obedience—truth lived out in the ordinary.”

Charles Spurgeon

“The Proverbs are the deep sayings of a wise father to his children, and every generation finds them newly true.”

C.S. Lewis

“Proverbs reminds us that God’s world has a moral grain; to go against it is to break ourselves, not His law.”