We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, and we talk as if the thoughts of other men's heads were really the feelings of our own hearts. But piety has not its seat in the memory, but in the affections, for which however the memory is an excellent purveyor, though a bad substitute.


Practical Piety; Or, The Influence of the Religion of the Heart on the Conduct of the Life (ed. 1811)

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We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read,...

We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read,...

We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read,...

We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read,...