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.

William Wilberforce

Inspirational, Peace, Abolition Of Slavery

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To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate

William Wilberforce

Ignorance, Bored, Missing

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There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

William Wilberforce

Christian, Heart, Mind

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Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

William Wilberforce

Inspirational, Silent, Human Trafficking

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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 be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.

William Wilberforce

Mind, Wickedness, Determined

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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 afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.

William Wilberforce

Thinking, Loving You, Heartless

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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

Men, Duty, Creatures

William Wilberforce (1871). “A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity. Complete ed”, p.2

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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 testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.

William Wilberforce

Gratitude, Heart, Eye

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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, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

William Wilberforce

Flower, School, Eye

Robert I. Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, William Wilberforce (1839). “The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes”, p.256

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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 permitted to be at large.

William Wilberforce

Inspirational, Challenges, Inspire

"William Wilberforce". Book by William Hague, 2007.

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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 steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.

William Wilberforce

Christian, Perseverance, Art

William Wilberforce (1834). “A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country; contrasted with real Christianity. With a memoir, by T. Price”

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We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.

William Wilberforce

Impossible, Realizing, Certain

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Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

William Wilberforce

Prayer, Secret Places, Neglect

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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 qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

William Wilberforce

Quality, Selfishness, Fruit

William Wilberforce (1797). “A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity”, p.424

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There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

William Wilberforce

Holiness, Shortcuts, Whole Life

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Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.

William Wilberforce

Heart, Suffering, Theme

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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 making a noise as we go

William Wilberforce

Christian, Jingles, Passionate

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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 is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

William Wilberforce

Christian, Real, Understanding

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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 were deeply flawed.

William Wilberforce

Belief, Argument, Christianity

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Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.

William Wilberforce

Exercise, Men, Progress

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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, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.

William Wilberforce

Heart, Soul, May

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No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!

William Wilberforce

Voice, People, Matter

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True practical Christianity (never let it be forgotten) consists in devoting the heart and life to God; in being supremely and habitually governed by a desire to know, and a disposition to fulfill his will, and in endeavoring under the influence of these motives to 'live to his glory.' Where these essential requisites are wanting, however amiable the character may be, however creditable and respectable among men, yet, as it possesses not the grand distinguishing essence, it must not be complimented with the name of Christianity.

William Wilberforce

Character, Heart, Men

William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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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

Giving, Ups & Downs, Accounting

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true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

William Wilberforce

Christian, Gratitude, Debt

William Wilberforce, Kevin Belmonte, Garth M. Rosell, Charles Colson (2006). “A Practical View of Christianity”, p.255, Hendrickson Publishers

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Born: August 24, 1759
Died: July 29, 1833
Occupation: British Politician
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