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• Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.

  William Wilberforce

  Religious, Book, Want

  66 Copy quote

• 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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• God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

  William Wilberforce

  Two, Morality, Slave

  "William Wilberforce". Book by William Hague, 2007.

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• true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Gratitude, Debt

  William Wilberforce, Kevin Belmonte, Garth M. Rosell, Charles Colson (2006). “A Practical View of Christianity”, p.255, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?

  William Wilberforce

  Husband, Father, Passion

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

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• No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

  William Wilberforce

  Ignorance, Men, World

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

  William Wilberforce

  Flower, Lovely, Goodness

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• In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they profess? Or do they furnish their children with arguments for the defense of that faith? ...it is not surprising to see them abandon a position which they are unable to defend.

  William Wilberforce

  Children, Parent, Infidelity

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• If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

  William Wilberforce

  Political, Principles, Estimating

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• Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Heaven, Have Faith

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

  William Wilberforce

  Eye, Immediacy, Magnification

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• When we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Thinking, Law

  "On the Horrors of the Slave Trade". Speech delivered in the House of Commons, May 12, 1789.

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• 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

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

  William Wilberforce

  Prayer, Soul, Devotion

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• The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force.

  William Wilberforce

  Neglect, Force, Equal

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.84, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

  William Wilberforce

  Golden, Path, Duty

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• My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, World, Quitting

  Robert I. Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce, William Wilberforce (1839). “The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes”, p.187

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• Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Silence, Ignorant

  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.314

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• The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated. The name of Jesus is not to be to us like the Allah of the Mahometans, a talisman or an amulet to be worn on the arm, as an external badge merely and symbol of our profession, and to preserve us from evil by some mysterious and unintelligible potency; but is to be engraved deeply on the heart, there written by the finger of God himself in everlasting characters.

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

  William Wilberforce

  Country, Civilization, Degrees

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• The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

  William Wilberforce

  Years, Purpose, Firsts

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• It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.

  William Wilberforce

  Heart, Christianity, Appearance

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Some bolder spirits, indeed, might be expected to despise the cautious moderation of these timid reasoners, and to pronounce decisively, that the Bible was a forgery, while the generality, professing to believe it genuine, should, less consistently, be satisfied with remaining ignorant of its contents, and when pressed, should discover themselves by no means to believe many of the most important particulars contained in it.

  William Wilberforce

  Believe, Mean, Ignorant

  William Wilberforce (1820). “Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians ...: Contrasted with Real Christianity ...”, p.237

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