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Thought for the Day 15 May 2009
Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Friday, May 15th, 2009
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Certainly this objection, that devotional practices, such as prayer, fasting, and communicating [viz. receiving the Eucharist], tend to self-righteousness, is the objection of those, or at least is just what the objection of those would be, who never attempted them.
From the sermon ‘Reliance on Religious Observances’ (1837) Click here for the full text (leaves site)
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