Without good feet, you cannot have a good head. Without a good foundation you cannot build a good building. Jesus tells the parable of the wise and foolish builders.

Anyone who hears and puts the teaching of Jesus into practice is compared to a wise man who built his house on a foundation of rock and set down deep pilings into the rock. When a flood came with torrents of rain, his house was not washed away or shaken. But the man who hears Jesus’ teaching and does not put them into practice is like the man who built his house on sand without a foundation. When the rains came and the wind blew beating against the house, it collapsed with a great crash and was completely destroyed. In any successful endeavor there needs to be men, capital, land, and organization. More important than these necessary material components of success is receiving the wisdom of God and having the will to implement it. Without the foundation of God’s teaching we will build beautiful buildings (family, wealth, education, nation, etc.) on a weak foundation and bring about ruin.