Quotes from William Wilberforce
we know that our Sovereign is "Long suffering, and easy to be entreated;" more ready to grant, than we to ask, forgiveness.
- William Wilberforce
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
I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.
- William Wilberforce
Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.
- William Wilberforce
There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.
- William Wilberforce
Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.
- William Wilberforce
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
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
If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go
- William Wilberforce
If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.
- William Wilberforce
Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.
- William Wilberforce
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
- William Wilberforce