A. C. Wilson

“Oh Christ! And Oh Christ! In Thy name the law!
In thy mouth the mandate! In thy loving hand the whip!
They have taken thee down from thy cross and sent thee to scourge the people;
They have shod thy feet with spikes and joined thy dead knees with iron,
And pushed thee, hiding behind, to trample the poor dumb faces.”

John Boyle O’Reilly, "From Earth, A Cry" 1844

“Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of the 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 — all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.”

William Temple, "Nature, Man and God 1934