William Wilberforce Quotes

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• Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.
• I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it…
• Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.
• Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.
• Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.
• If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely…
• There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to…
• No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and…
• Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers’ arguments…
• God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
• It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.
• Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized…
• I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for…
• If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on…
• So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences…
• Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy,…
• The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
• Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.
• In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they profess? Or do…
• It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

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