William Wilberforce Quotes

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?

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

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

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

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

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

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

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

There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

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

No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!

all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow-creatures to the utmost of his power.

Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.