The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.[Der reine Gefühlspietismus endlich ist – wie schon Ritschl hervorgehoben hat – eine religiöse Spielerei für »leisure classes«.]
Source:(Scribner, ed. 1950), Part II. The Practical Ethics of teh Ascetic Branches of Protestantism, Chapter IV. The Religious Foundations of Worldly Asceticism, Page 139