"Both for perplexity and for dulled conscience the remedy is the same; sincere and spiritual worship.
For 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 (1881-1944), Archbishop of Canterbury
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