“To do the best things: to pray and fast and engage in works of charity with a close, confined, shut-up heart can never be religion. To feel very free and yet to be very accurate and particular in action; to be the more bound, because we are not bound, and make the greater liberty the motive of the severer discipline, this is the Christian faith. This is the Gospel.”
George Worthington (1840-1908) Episcopal Bishop of Nebraska in Lent: The Holy Season (Washington, D.C.: Neale Publishing Company, 1902) 93.