William Wilberforce Quotes

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

  William Wilberforce

  Heart, Suffering, Theme

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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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• 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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• 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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• I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. We are all guilty—we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others; and I therefore deprecate every kind of reflection against the various descriptions of people who are more immediately involved in this wretched business.

  William Wilberforce

  Mean, Reflection, People

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• 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 your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.

  William Wilberforce

  Eye, Views, Soul

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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