William Wilberforce Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• 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

• 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

• I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

  William Wilberforce

  Prayer, Soul, Too Late

• The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

  William Wilberforce

  Prayer, Soul, Devotion

• This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

  William Wilberforce

  Soul, Solitude, Body

  Robert I. Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, William Wilberforce (1839). “The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes”, p.207

• 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

• 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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