"Seek not to change even what you deem faulty, for hardly any change could be effected in the Prayer Book or Formularies which would not result in greater evils than those which you wish to remedy. You cannot realize in imagination the extent of the evil results to England of any material alteration in the Book of Common Prayer: no other human work is so free from faults as it is."
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Charles Simeon, quoted in Arthur William Brown, Recollections of the Conversation Parties of the Rev. Charles Simeon (1863), p. 62
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