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• O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

  William Wilberforce

  Sunday, Blessing, Sea

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• If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society.

  William Wilberforce

  Country, Men, Rights

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.119, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

  William Wilberforce

  Sick, Community, Political

  William Wilberforce (2003). “A Practical View: Of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society, Contrasted with Real Christianity”, p.389, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

  William Wilberforce

  Sports, Years, Use

  William Wilberforce (1835). “A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country Contrasted with Real Christians”, p.159

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• Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.

  William Wilberforce

  Hands, Indolence, Providence

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

  William Wilberforce

  Pain, Taken, Idle

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• Its guilt therefore in these cases, is not to be measure by its effects on the happiness of mankind; nor is it to be denominated true or false glory, accordingly as the ends to which it is directed are beneficial or mischievous, just or unjust objects of pursuit; but it is false, because it exalts that which ought to be abased, and criminal, because it encroaches on the prerogative of God.

  William Wilberforce

  Guilt, True Or False, Criminals

  William Wilberforce (1820). “Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians ...: Contrasted with Real Christianity ...”, p.135

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• Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.

  William Wilberforce

  Thinking, Views, Looks

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Favors, May

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• Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

  William Wilberforce

  Parliament, Serving God, Nations

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• The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?

  William Wilberforce

  Mean, Knowing, Giving

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• When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.

  William Wilberforce

  Fashion, Blessed, Vanity

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• 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

  Men, Soul, Good Man

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• God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Mind, Peculiar

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• It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

  William Wilberforce

  Decision, Scripture, Authority

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• In short, Christians in general are everywhere denominated the servants and the children of God, and are required to serve him with that submissive obedience, and that affectionate promptitude of duty, which belong to those endearing relations.

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Children, Submissive

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Practice, Giving

  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.349

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• I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

  William Wilberforce

  Doctrine, Wealth, Natural

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• Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Joy, Soul

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• How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

  William Wilberforce

  Character, Eye, Men

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• We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which God particularly requires. Love, Zeal, Gratitude, Joy, Hope, Trust, are each of them specified; and are not allowed to us as weaknesses, but enjoined on us as our bounden duty, and commended to us as our acceptable worship.

  William Wilberforce

  Gratitude, Joy, Weakness

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we can only attain by much discipline and slow advances; and when we think we have made great way, we shall often find reason to confess in the hour of trial, that we had greatly, far too greatly, over-rated our progress.

  William Wilberforce

  Thinking, Discipline, Progress

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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