Pamene kuli kwakuti Awadensi ankawona kuopa Yehova monga chiyambi cha nzeru, iwo sanali osawona kufunika kwa kuyanjana ndi dziko, chidziŵitso cha anthu ndi moyo wokangalika, m’kukulitsa maganizo ndi kufulumizitsa malingaliro.
While the Waldenses regarded the fear of the Lord as the beginning of wisdom, they were not blind to the importance of a contact with the world, a knowledge of men and of  active life, in expanding the mind and quickening the perceptions