Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.