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.
William TempleTrue worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.
William TempleChristianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.
William TempleThe only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
William TempleTo worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
William TemplePeople that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.
William TempleThere is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man. The Malvern Manifesto: Drawn up by a Conference of the Province of York, January 10, 1941; signed for the Conference by Temple, then Archbishop of York .
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