William Wilberforce Quotes

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• You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
• Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to…
• We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.
• Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when…
• We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which…
• It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of…
• The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
• Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good…
• Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not…
• true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude
• This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
• We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful,…
• How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . .…
• O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is…
• When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.
• I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our…
• As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
• What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent,…
• God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
• Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

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