William Wilberforce Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

  William Wilberforce

  Eye, Immediacy, Magnification

• 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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