"The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it……" — William Wilberforce
"The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint"
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William Wilberforce
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60 Quotes by William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce has 60 quotes on this site.
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Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.
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I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of…
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Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.
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Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go…
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Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.
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If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our…
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There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word…
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No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without…
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Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack,…
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners…
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It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify…
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Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern…
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More Devotion Quotes
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
— Aristotle
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I…
— Teresa of Avila
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community…
— Mitch Albom
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding…
— Adam Clarke
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What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God…
— John of Shanghai and San Francisco
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Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction,…
— Eric Milner-White
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Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from…
— Wilbur Smith
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If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have…
— Hojo Shigetoki
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