"Let no one hence infer that we are opposed to feeling. God forbid! A religion without feeling is a body without a spirit. A religion that does not reach the heart and arouse all our feelings into admiration, gratitude, love, and praise is a mere phantom. But we make feelings the effect and not the cause of faith and true religion. We begin not with the feelings, but with the understanding: we call upon men first to believe, then to feel, and then to act. The gospel takes the whole man – the head, the heart, the hand; and he only is a genuine Christian who believes, feels, and obeys from the heart the whole mould of doctrine delivered to us by the apostles."

Alexander Campbell, Millennial Harbinger, Volume 10, 1830, page 12