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title: 'John Witherspoon on True Piety'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-06-16
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-john-witherspoon-on-true-piety
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# John Witherspoon on True Piety

“True piety is the same in substance in all ages, and points at one thing as its center and its rest: the knowledge and enjoyment of God.” — [John Witherspoon](/authors/john-witherspoon), “The Object of a Christian’s Desire in Religious Worship” in *Works*, Vol. 2 (1800 ed.), p. 71