HINDRANCES;
FREEDOM

… yet I can understand how a religion that lay mostly in external observances could be forbidden. If true religion consisted in outward practices, then it could be destroyed by laws forbidding those practices. But if the true worshiper is one who worships God in spirit and in truth, how can laws or jails or abuses or deprivations prevent the spiritual man from worshiping?

Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. No one can hinder him.

John 4:23–24; Acts 5:41–42; Romans 10:8–10

The Root of the Righteous, 147.