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Errors in religion usually lie on the side of convenience; men being willing to believe any one, who teaches them, that it is an easier thing to go to heaven than they had thought for. This is indeed the reason why we see so many kinds of religion prevalent in the world. Not that the true one is not plain enough, and easy to be known from the rest, if a man will give his mind honestly to seek it out. But men persuade themselves they can find some wider gate, some broader way, some doctrine more palatable, some practice more agreeable, than those which are insisted on in the Bible.

Charles Girdlestone — Charles Girdlestone, M.A., Vicar of Sedgley, Staffordshire, Twenty Parochial Sermons Adapted to the Use of Families, second series (Oxford: printed by S. Collingwood for the author, and for J. G. and F. Rivington, London, 1832), Sermon X, "Difficulty of Religion," p. 147

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Charles Girdlestone, Charles Girdlestone, M.A., Vicar of Sedgley, Staffordshire, Twenty Parochial Sermons Adapted to the Use of Families, second series (Oxford: printed by S. Collingwood for the author, and for J. G. and F. Rivington, London, 1832), Sermon X, "Difficulty of Religion," p. 147 (archive.org) - Charles Girdlestone, M.A., Vicar of Sedgley, Staffordshire, Twenty Parochial Sermons Adapted to the Use of Families, second series (Oxford: printed by S. Collingwood for the author, and for J. G. and F. Rivington, London, 1832), Sermon X, "Difficulty of Religion," p. 147
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