But deep this truth impress'd my mind:
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Ye hypocrites! are these your pranks? To Murder men, and give God thanks? Desist for same! proceed no further: God won't accept your thanks for Murther!

No belief runs more counter to experience than the belief in a benevolent god.

I watched my foolish heart expand / In the lazy glow of benevolence, / O'er the various modes of man's belief.

The lessons of prudence have charms, And slighted, may lead to distress; But the man whom benevolence warms Is an angel who lives but to bless.