Benjamin Franklin — "The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; …"

The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, tho' it never produced any fruit.
Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin Early Modern · Electricity experiments, founding father

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Date: Unknown, likely 18th century

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