Quotes from William Wilberforce

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.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.

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.

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

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

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

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

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

There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.