{"id":3567,"date":"2008-08-02T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/quote-of-the-day-benjamin-franklin\/"},"modified":"2008-08-02T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T15:10:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-benjamin-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/08\/quote-of-the-day-benjamin-franklin.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Benjamin Franklin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u201c<span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">I think vital Religion has always suffer\u2019d, when Orthodoxy is more regarded than Virtue. And the Scripture assures me, that at the last Day, we shall not be examin\u2019d what we thought, but what we did; and our Recommendation will not be that we said Lord, Lord, but that we did Good to our Fellow Creatures<\/span>\u201d (Benjamin Franklin, <a href=\"http:\/\/franklinpapers.org\/franklin\/framedVolumes.jsp?vol=2&amp;page=202a\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Letter to Josiah and Abiah Franklin, April 13th, 1738<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3018079426214687742?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think vital Religion has always suffer\u2019d, when Orthodoxy is more regarded than Virtue. 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