Powerful definitions

On Worship

Both for perplexity and for dulled conscience
the remedy is the same.
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.
and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centredness 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, on what worship is for, from a 1944 BBC broadcast, later transcribed in *Anglican Digest*

On Sin

Take this rule: whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself. - Susanna Wesley (Letter, June 8, 1725)

On Intercessor

An intercessor is one who is in such vital contact with God and with his fellow men that he is like a live wire closing the gap between the saving power of God and the sinful men who have been cut off from that power. - Hannah Hurnard