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"17 William Wilberforce Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 24 August 1759. Died: 29 July 1833 | Politician | Philanthropist | Leader |

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

Progress Experience Love God
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Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

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

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

God Objects Slave trade Manners
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Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

Principles Christianity Action Mediation
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Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Guard God Secret place Prayer
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True Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

Christians Creditor Debt Gratitude
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Because they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, he gave them over to a reprobate mind

God Knowledge Gave Mind
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What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.

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

You Choose Way Know
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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.

Word God Hearts Worlds
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It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

Duty Happiness Creatures Power
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Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Selfishness Human nature Good qualities
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No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.

Attain Power Christians Labour
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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

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

Shortcut Holiness Business Lives
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The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

Devotions Soul Grows Faint
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William Wilberforce Quotes & Sayings