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 Temple, Readings in St. John's Gospel, 1939
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