For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.
The knowledge of ourselves, therefore, is not only an incitement to seek after God, but likewise a considerable assistance towards finding him.
The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.
The nature of pure and genuine religion…consists in faith, united with a serious fear of God, comprehending a voluntary reverence, and producing legitimate worship agreeable to the injunctions of the law.
