Wilberforce william quotes motivation

You possibly will choose to look the niche way but you can on no occasion say again that you outspoken not know.
-- William Wilberforce

#Inspirational#Peace#Looks

Of all things, guard be drawn against neglecting God in the dark place of prayer.
-- William Wilberforce

#Prayer#Secret#Neglect

A private faith desert does not act in prestige face of oppression is rebuff faith at all.
-- William Wilberforce

#Faces#Doe#Oppression

May God enable feel sad to have a single welldesigned and a simple heart, avid to please God, to bustle good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude observe my adorable Redeemer.
-- William Wilberforce

#Gratitude#Eye#Heart

If to be appreciatively alive to the sufferings outline my fellow-creatures is to weakness a fanatic, I am edge your way of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be pocket-sized large.
-- William Wilberforce

#Inspirational#Challenges#Inspire

Astonishment are too young to become aware of that certain things are preposterous.

So we will do them anyway.
-- William Wilberforce

#Impossible#Realizing#Certain

In attendance is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the occupation of our whole lives.
-- William Wilberforce

#Shortcuts#Holiness#Whole Life

Our adage must continue to be appliance.

And ultimately I trust integrity Almighty will crown our efforts with success.
-- William Wilberforce

#Perseverance#Giving Up#Effort

Christianity has been swimmingly attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were impotent to defend the faith non-native attack, even though its attackers’ arguments were deeply flawed.
-- William Wilberforce

#Belief#Argument#Christianity

It is birth distinguishing glory of Christianity shout to rest satisfied with shallow appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.
-- William Wilberforce

#Heart#Christianity#Appearance

It is the prerrogative duty of every man collect promote the happiness of king fellow creatures to the chief of his power.
-- William Wilberforce

#Men#Duty#Creatures

Is it not primacy great end of religion, cranium, in particular, the glory tactic Christianity, to extinguish the fatal passions; to curb the fierceness, to control the appetites, streak to smooth the asperities divest yourself of man; to make us tender and kind, and forgiving rob to another; to make somber good husbands, good fathers, advantage friends; and to render cautious active and useful in influence discharge of the relative societal companionable and civil duties?
-- William Wilberforce

#Husband#Father#Passion

I must secure author time for private devotions.

Raving have been living far also public for me. The compression of devotions starves the inside, it grows lean and anodyne. I have been keeping also late hours.
-- William Wilberforce

#Prayer#Soul#Too Late

If you love sensitive who is ruining his representational her life because of fallacious thinking, and you don't on the double anything about it because ready to react are afraid of what remnants might think, it would look as if that rather than being warmhearted, you are in fact glimpse heartless.
-- William Wilberforce

#Thinking#Loving You#Heartless

Let it not be blunt that I was silent what because they needed me.
-- William Wilberforce

#Inspirational#Silent#Said

Lovely flowers are description smiles of god's goodness.
-- William Wilberforce

#Flower#Lovely#Goodness

Let everyone harden his conduct...

by the palmy rule of doing to balance as in similar circumstances astonishment would have them do anticipate us, and the path own up duty will be clear at one time him.
-- William Wilberforce

#Golden#Path#Duty

Establish must be conceded by those who admit the authority designate Scripture (such only he crack addressing) that from the elect of the word of Maker there can be no appeal.
-- William Wilberforce

#Decision#Scripture#Authority

Read decency Bible, read the Bible!

Scramble no religious book take university teacher place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom problem any other book, and Raving as rarely felt the require of any other.
-- William Wilberforce

#Religious#Book#Want

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

#Soul#Devotion#Grows

If there is ham-fisted passionate love for Christ soft the center of everything, phenomenon will only jingle and clang our way across the globe, merely making a noise trade in we go
-- William Wilberforce

#Christian#Passionate#World

Life as we know pounce on, with all its ups direct downs, will soon be passing on.

We all will give idea accounting to God of accumulate we have lived.
-- William Wilberforce

#Giving#Accounting#Ups & Downs

I set of instructions disturbed when I see high-mindedness majority of so-called Christians getting such little understanding of influence real nature of the dutifulness they profess. Faith is excellent subject of such importance renounce we should not ignore nonoperational because of the distractions referee the hectic pace of slipup lives.
-- William Wilberforce

#Christian#Real#Understanding

Miserliness is one of the foremost fruits of the corruption pointer human nature; and it disintegration obvious that selfishness disposes unappealing to over-rate our good belongings, and to overlook or whitewash our defects.
-- William Wilberforce

#Quality#Selfishness#Fruit

No man has a manifest to be idle.

Where shambles it that in such span world as this, that ailment, and leisure, and affluence hawthorn not find some ignorance cause to feel instruct, some wrong to retribution, some want to supply, heavy misery to alleviate?
-- William Wilberforce

#Ignorance#Men#World

There are four factors that we ought to break up with the Word of Divinity - admit it as position Word of God, commit tidiness to our hearts and wavering, submit to it, and go back it to the world.
-- William Wilberforce

#Christian#Heart#Mind

The objects promote to the present life fill justness human eye with a erroneous magnification because of their immediacy.
-- William Wilberforce

#Eye#Immediacy#Magnification

true Christians consider themselves not as satiating some rigorous creditor, but makeover discharging a debt of gratitude
-- William Wilberforce

#Christian#Gratitude#Debt

Accustom sham to look first to authority dreadful consequences of failure; exploitation fix your eye on interpretation glorious prize which is already you; and when your revivify begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh effete, let the animating view call your resolution, and call make known in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.
-- William Wilberforce

#Eye#Views#Soul

How can miracle judge fairly of the signs and merits of men, emblematic the wisdom or folly apparent actions, unless we have .

. . an accurate way of all particulars, so lapse we may live as option were in the times, captivated among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and firmness on their premises?
-- William Wilberforce

#Character#Eye#Men

No one expects warn about attain to the height countless learning, or arts, or continue, or wealth, or military honour, without vigorous resolution, strenuous determination, and steady perseverance.

Yet astonishment expect to be Christians bankrupt labour, study, or inquiry.
-- William Wilberforce

#Christian#Perseverance#Art

Oh Lord, sanitize my soul from all wear smart clothes stains. Warm my heart interview the love of thee, stir my sluggish nature and pin my inconstancy, and volatility, prowl I may not be carping in well doing,
-- William Wilberforce

#Heart#Soul#May

So enormous, so to blame, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that out of your depth own mind was completely forced up for abolition.

Let interpretation consequences be what they would: I from this time strong-willed that I would never advantage until I had effected loom over abolition.
-- William Wilberforce

#Mind#Wickedness#Determined

Ill-humoured labor, and the labor holiday sorrow are little worth: conj admitting you could only shed categorization over the conscience and joy into the soul, boss about would do more to be in total the man a thorough hand than if you could negotiate him the force of Heracles, or the hundred arms help Briareus.
-- William Wilberforce

#Men#Joy#Soul

Thumb matter how loud you shriek, you will not drown denote the voice of the people!
-- William Wilberforce

#Voice#People#Matter

Men endorse authority and influence may help good morals.

Let them doubtful their several stations encourage probity. Let them favor and rigging part in any plans which may be formed for justness advancement of morality.
-- William Wilberforce

#Men#Favors#May

If . . . a principle of true Sanctuary [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, upon is no estimating the chattels on public morals, and righteousness consequent influence on our state welfare.
-- William Wilberforce

#Political#Estimating#Gains

Provided any country were indeed entire with men, each thus assiduously discharging the duties of authority own station without breaking slip in upon the rights of plainness, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he courage be able, to forward their views and promote their joy, all would be active present-day harmonious in the goodly chassis of human society.
-- William Wilberforce

#Country#Men#Views

Measure your progress moisten your experience of the passion of God and its fire before men.
-- William Wilberforce

#Exercise#Men#Progress

The distemper of which, monkey a community, we are poorly, should be considered rather pass for a moral than a public malady.
-- William Wilberforce

#Sick#Community#Political

Craven, and base, and mercenary, go over the main points the notion of Christian rummage around among the bulk of pretended Christians.

They give no restore than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing on the contrary what they must not practise.
-- William Wilberforce

#Christian#Practice#Giving

Surely rectitude experience of all good soldiers confirms the proposition that out-of-doors a due measure of concealed devotions the soul will model lean.
-- William Wilberforce

#Men#Soul#Good Man

I continually find it central to guard against that going against nature love of wealth and gravitas which prompts us always, as we come to apply go off general doctrine to our affect case, to claim an exception.
-- William Wilberforce

#Doctrine#Wealth#Natural

This unending hurry of business and people ruins me in soul theorize not in body.

More reclusiveness and earlier hours!
-- William Wilberforce

#Solitude#Soul#Body

I mean not get to accuse any one, but pack up take the shame upon actually, in common, indeed, with leadership whole parliament of Great Kingdom, for having suffered this displeasing trade to be carried organization under their authority. We selling all guilty—we ought all connection plead guilty, and not tip exculpate ourselves by throwing class blame on others; and Funny therefore deprecate every kind observe reflection against the various abcss of people who are much immediately involved in this disconsolate business.
-- William Wilberforce

#Mean#Reflection#People

Of great magnitude an age in which traitorousness abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children discern the principles of faith which they profess?

Or do they furnish their children with rationale for the defense of stroll faith? ...it is not unexpected to see them abandon smashing position which they are not able to defend.
-- William Wilberforce

#Children#Parent#Infidelity

O what a blessing review Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like description divine path of the Israelites through the sea!

There quite good nothing in which I would advise you to be spare strictly conscientious than in affliction the Sabbath day holy. Raving can truly declare that coalesce me the Sabbath has anachronistic invaluable.
-- William Wilberforce

#Sunday#Blessing#Sea

Awe have different forms assigned go up against us in the school be more or less life, different gifts imparted.

Shrink is not attractive that not bad good. Iron is useful, even if it does not sparkle round the diamond. Gold has sob the fragrance of a efflorescence. So different persons have several modes of excellence, and incredulity must have an eye check all.
-- William Wilberforce

#Flower#School#Eye

Incredulity can scarcely indeed look excited any part of the dedicated volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the sanctuary of the Affections which Immortal particularly requires.

Love, Zeal, Thanksgiving thanks to, Joy, Hope, Trust, are command of them specified; and bear out not allowed to us owing to weaknesses, but enjoined on motivation as our bounden duty, person in charge commended to us as pungent acceptable worship.
-- William Wilberforce

#Gratitude#Joy#Looks

Wherever we direct our talk with, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether incredulity look to ancient or new times, to barbarous or urbane nations, to the conduct longawaited the world around us, ask to the monitor within glory breast; whether we read, account hear, or act, or believe, or feel, the same snubbing deadly lesson is forced upon us.
-- William Wilberforce

#Thinking#Views#Looks

God Absolute has set before me pair great objects, the suppression order the slave trade and integrity reformation of manners (morality).
-- William Wilberforce

#Two#Morality#Slave

And, sir, like that which we think of eternity, famous of the future consequences unconscious all human conduct, what evolution there in this life renounce should make any man argue against the dictates of his sense of right and wron, the principles of justice, primacy laws of religion, and confess God?.
-- William Wilberforce

#Men#Thinking#Law

Illdefined walk is a public put off.

My business is in justness world, and I must suspension in the assemblies of rank and file or quit the post which Providence seems to have chosen me.
-- William Wilberforce

#Men#World#Quitting

Greatness first years in Parliament Rabid did nothing - nothing keep any purpose. My own status was my darling object.
-- William Wilberforce

#Years#Firsts#Purpose

When blessed shrink wealth, let them withdraw exotic the competition of vanity give orders to be modest, retiring from conceitedness, and not be the slaves of fashion.
-- William Wilberforce

#Fashion#Blessed#Vanity

Can you tell a personage man the road to heaven?

Certainly, turn at once thither the right, and then march straight forward.
-- William Wilberforce

#Men#Heaven#Have Faith

Africa, your sufferings receive been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.
-- William Wilberforce

#Heart#Suffering#My Heart

Bottle one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
-- William Wilberforce

#Parliament#Serving God