Prayers at Hollowell :   7th April 2002-04-07 (Oxford Book of Prayer) 
Archbishop William Temple on worship.
Worship is the submission of all our nature to God.  It is the quickening of conscience by his holiness;  the nourishment of mind by his truth;  the purifying of the 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 of that self-centredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin. 
Lord, , our hearts are not large enough, our memory is not good enough, our will is not strong enough.  Take our hearts and enlarge them, take our memories and given them quicker recall; take out wills and make them strong and make me ever conscious of thee, ever present , ever accompanying.  
Amen.
O God, the God of all goodness and grace who art worthy of greater love then we can either give or understand; fill our hearts we beseech Thee with such love towards Thee that nothing may seem too hard for us to do or to suffer in obedience to thy will; and grant that, thus loving thee, we may become more daily like Thee and finally obtain the crown of life which thou hast promised to those that love thee, through Jesus Christ Our Lord – Amen. 
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