You know very well what I mean.

Dear little girl, listen to me.

I suppose there are people scared into religion through fear of the wrath to come, who may become dull and uninteresting.

It is a matter of nature, in a great many cases.

I suppose whatever is done for selfish reasons, even in the religious life, may make people uncertain and fearful, and sometimes miserable.
But when a man suddenly determines to model his life after that of the one and only perfect man and gentleman the world ever knew, he does not find anything to make him dull and wretched.