Out of pious duties! – Thomas Brooks

Ah, how lively, how warm, how enlarged, how holy, how humble, how heavenly, how spiritual, how serious, how zealous, how pious, how gracious are many in pious duties; but ah! how dead, how cold, how straitened, how unholy, how proud, how worldly, how carnal, how slight, and how irreligious are they out of pious duties! Now, certainly, these have either no holiness at all or else they have attained to but a very little measure of holiness.