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Religion is in its essence an inward and spiritual holiness. — Lucas Morality without religion is only a kind of dead-reckoning— an endeavour to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

— Longfellow

LoNGFELLOwW What I want is, not to possess religion but to have a religion that shall possess me.

The point

True religion is inward holiness, and morality without it drifts like navigation without the stars.

Scripture
Audience
Adults
Tone
Philosophical · Poetic
To tell aloud
under a minute · 67 words
Subjects
FaithSpiritualityTruthReligionMorality

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