Quotes from 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.

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.

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

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.

Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.

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

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.

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?

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.