God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

At a certain stage in the path of devotion, the devotee finds satisfaction in God with form, and at another stage, in God without it.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Having beliefs about God doesn't require devotion to religion, but beliefs about something that important are worthless in practice, unless their adherents are religiously devoted to them.