Wilberforce Quotes

• William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.

  J. I. Packer

  Blessed, Men, Evil

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• Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.

  Mitt Romney

  Jesus, Powerful, Soul

  "Mitt Romney's Religious Act of Political Accommodation" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. May 14, 2012.

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• Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were "wrong" in their own time and think, ah well.

  Bob Brown

  Thinking, People, Choices

  "Bob Brown and the media: 'I'll take them on ... they've crossed the line'". Interview with John Keane, theconversation.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.

  Eric Metaxas

  Dream, Educational, Reality

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• Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction.
  Owen believed in extinction but not evolution.
  Lamarck believed in evolution but not extinction.
  Darwin believed in evolution and extinction.
  All four of them believed in God.

  Sara Maitland

  Believe, Four, Extinction

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• 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

  Band, Faces, Oppression

  Charles W. Colson (2010). “God and Government: An Insider's View on the Boundaries between Faith and Politics”, p.113, Harper Collins

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