Ocupation: Author
Life: 1619 - 1651
Birthday: 1619
Death: 1651
See, then, how powerful religion is; it commands the heart, it commands the vitals. Morality,--that comes with a pruning-knife, and cuts off all sproutings, all wild luxuriances; but religion lays the axe to the root of the tree. Morality looks that the skin of the apple be fair; but religion searcheth to the very core.
topic: Powerful, Heart, Cutting, Pruning