William Wilberforce Quotes

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• Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book,…
• A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all.
• I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith…
• May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and…
• Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.
• Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
• There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.
• No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may…
• The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint
• Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.
• If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are…
• Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
• Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how…
• My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post…
• And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make…
• If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of…
• Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
• Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and…
• The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
• If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever…

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