Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Another Description of Worship

"...Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose -- and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin. Yes -- worship in spirit and truth is the way to the solution of perplexity and to the liberation from sin."

-- William Temple, "Readings in St. John's Gospel" first series (London: Macmillan, 1939), p. 68

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