Take care not to perform any religious act in order to be observed by men: otherwise you will have no reward from your father who is in heaven.

"if we play a merry tune, you are not for dancing; if we act a mournful part, you are not in the humour."

wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, but neglect those more important matters of the law, justice, mercy, and fidelity: these were the things ye ought to have practis'd, without neglecting however the other matters.