« The Agony of Budgets
A Day of Diversity »

William Temple on Worship

William Temple

William Temple, the widely regarded and brilliant Archbishop of Canterbury from 1942-44 wrote:

“Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God.
It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness,
Nourishment of mind by His truth,
Purifying of imagination by His beauty,
Opening of the heart to His love,
And submission of will to his purpose.
And all this gathered up in adoration is the greatest of human expressions of which we are capable.”

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 at 10:21 am and is filed under Spirituality. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “William Temple on Worship”

  1. William Temple on worship » Steve Addison’s blog » World Changers Says:
    March 25th, 2007 at 10:10 pm

    [...] HT: UnderTheIceberg [...]

  2. Louise Says:
    February 24th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    What an amazing quote. The day to day sometimes minute by minute choice of living by the Holy Spirit and not for ourselves is modeled in this quote. No matter what I am doing I can use it to worship. Thanks.

Leave a Reply