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It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
— William Wilberforce
A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.
— Samuel Wilberforce
It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.
— William Wilberforce
Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.
— William Wilberforce
Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
— William Wilberforce
No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!
— William Wilberforce
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
— William Wilberforce
If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.
— Samuel Wilberforce
O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.
— Samuel Wilberforce
Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.
— William Wilberforce
The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint
— William Wilberforce
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 we have lived.
— William Wilberforce
What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.
— William Wilberforce
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
— William Wilberforce
A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all.
— William Wilberforce
Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.
— William Wilberforce
The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
— William Wilberforce
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
— William Wilberforce
Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit.
— Samuel Wilberforce
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
— William Wilberforce
There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.
— William Wilberforce
No man, ever indulged more freely or happily in that playful facetiousness which gratifies all without wounding any.
— William Wilberforce
Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.
— William Wilberforce
God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.
— William Wilberforce
We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible ... So we will do them anyway.
— William Wilberforce
Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.
— William Wilberforce
Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
— William Wilberforce
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.
— Charles Colson
Because they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, he gave them over to a reprobate mind
— William Wilberforce
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
— William Wilberforce
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
— William Wilberforce
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
— William Wilberforce
Blessed be to God for the day of rest and religious occupation wherein earthly things assume their true size.
— William Wilberforce
True Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude
— William Wilberforce
Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.
— William Wilberforce
