Words from the past
Perceive the difference between religion and the cant of religion; piety and the pretense of piety; a humble reverence for the great truths of Scripture and an audacious and offensive obtrusion of its letter and not its spirit in the commonest dissensions and meanest affairs of life. . . It is never out of season to protest against that coarse familiarity with sacred things which is busy on the lip and idle in the heart, or the confounding of Christianity with any class of persons who. . . have just enough religion to make them hate, and not enough to make them love, one another.~ Charles Dickens, Preface to The First Cheap Edition, The Pickwick Papers, 1847
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