You have a source for this?
Spirited: Absolutely. But as you are the one in need of “thinking deeper” than a shallow piece of paper it would be good for you to do the work of tracing the quote.
I'm well aware of the practice of attributing quotes to Huxley, Darwin, Voltaire, JK Rowling, and others. And while it can be amusing to work out how a particular pious lie originated, it helps to have a clew to start with.