William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. [Українська] [Русский]
William Wilberforce Quotes
Trifle not then, O my soul, with thy immortal interests. Heaven is not to be won without labour.
—William Wilberforce
Without watchfulness, humiliation, and prayer, the sense of divine things must languish, as much as the grass withers for want of refreshing rains and dews.
—William Wilberforce
Oh then pray, pray, be earnest, press forward and follow on to know the Lord.
—William Wilberforce
I will press forward and labour to know God better, and love him more, assuredly I may, because God will give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him, and the Holy Ghost will shed abroad the love of God in the heart.
—William Wilberforce
I look to him with humble hope, I disclaim every other plea than that of the publican, offered up through the Redeemer; but I would animate my hopes, trusting in him that he will perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle me.
—William Wilberforce
God has by his preventing grace kept me from publicly disgracing the Christian profession. O my soul, praise the Lord, and forget not all his mercies.
—William Wilberforce
Oh Lord, when I think how little I have done, I am ashamed and confounded, and I would fain honour God more than I have yet done.
—William Wilberforce
I should do wrong to sacrifice an opportunity of usefulness which is within my reach, in order to qualify myself for a station I am not likely ever to fill.
—William Wilberforce
If it should ever please God to call me to any situation of power, or to any higher eminence, which I do not expect, he would furnish me with the talents necessary for the discharge of its duties.
—William Wilberforce
Mine, against which however in its risings I struggle, and which I strive to suppress, is a sadly depraved appetite, rooted in an inordinate love of this world.
—William Wilberforce
I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises, as private devotion, religious meditation, Scripture reading, etc. Hence I am lean, and cold, and hard.
—William Wilberforce
*True Christians* consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude.
—William Wilberforce
That our feelings do not correspond with our judgments, is one of the strongest proofs of our depravity and of the double man within us.
—William Wilberforce
Many persons are misled by the favourable opinions entertained of them by others; many, it is to be feared, mistake a hot zeal for orthodoxy, for a cordial acceptance of the great truths of the gospel.
—William Wilberforce
O may I press forward with renewed diligence and strive more earnestly to make a progress in the way that leadeth unto life eternal, Amen. Amen.
—William Wilberforce
I have wasted my time alas! O may I make a better use of it and from purer motives.
—William Wilberforce
Among those who believe themselves to be orthodox Christians, [is] a deplorable ignorance of the religion they profess, an utter forgetfulness of the peculiar doctrines by which it is characterised
—William Wilberforce
O the grace and mercy of Christ which are still ready for me, a poor persevering sinner, who have so long trifled with the concerns of my soul’s salvation.
—William Wilberforce
Happy, happy souls! which the grace of God has visited, ‘has brought out of darkness into his marvellous light’, and ‘from the power of Satan unto God’.
—William Wilberforce
Let me not be governed by frames and feelings but cherish a resolute determination for God and desire to serve him.
—William Wilberforce
O may I grow in the fear and love of God and Christ and may I be an habitation of God through the Spirit, 1 Cor 6:1.
—William Wilberforce
O God, how little do I deserve all ye honour thou puttest upon me, but may I be more active in thy service and live more by faith, doing all to the glory of God, and in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the Father through him.
—William Wilberforce
The religious system of the bulk of nominal Christians is satisfied with some appearance of virtue
—William Wilberforce
O God, do thou by Christ enlighten me and quicken me.
—William Wilberforce
O may my time, my fortune, my understanding, and all my talents be more diligently improved, but may the one thing needful be the grand concern with me, and let not my heart be overcharged with lusts of other things.
—William Wilberforce
Milner has now been reading Baxter’s sermon on self examination to us, a truly humbling one to me.
—William Wilberforce
I humbly trust I have humbled myself before God and come to him through Christ and though my heart be so hard and cold and inconstant yet I will humbly trust that his mercy will be extended, even to me.
—William Wilberforce
O may I be enabled to live more a life of faith and diligent and active devotedness to God’s service.
—William Wilberforce
O strengthen my weakness. Bear with my infirmities, draw me and I will run after thee.
—William Wilberforce
Wealth and luxury produce stagnation, and stagnation terminates in death.
—William Wilberforce