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British Politician

William Wilberforce was a British politician known for his leading role in the movement to abolish slavery. He actively pushed for legislation against the slave trade in the British Parliament and dedicated his life to promoting social justice and moral reform.

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Famous William Wilberforce Quotes

“If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society.”

Ifs Men Humans Country Might Would Be Able Views Rights Duty Filled Active Contrary Stations Diligence Harmonious Human Society

Book:A Practical View of Preferred Christians

Source: A Practical View of Preferred Christians

“Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.”

Ifs Men Littles Soul Joy Force He Man Arms Sorrow Hundred Conscience Labor Workers Shed Tranquility Thorough Sulky

Author:William Wilberforce

“The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Knowing Accounts Defense Pursuit Bars Ignorant Motive Urges Length Urgent Stewardship Transcendent Reckoning

Author:William Wilberforce

“The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated. The name of Jesus is not to be to us like the Allah of the Mahometans, a talisman or an amulet to be worn on the arm, as an external badge merely and symbol of our profession, and to preserve us from evil by some mysterious and unintelligible potency; but is to be engraved deeply on the heart, there written by the finger of God himself in everlasting characters.”

Source: A Practical View of Preferred Christians

“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”

Ifs Inspirational Suffering Challenges Alive Inspire Creatures Fellows Provoking Fanatics Human Trafficking Trafficking

Author:William Wilberforce

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

Ifs Soul Body Hours Company Solitude Ruins Perpetual

Book:The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes

Source: The Life of William Wilberforce: In Five Volumes

“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”

Ifs World Way Christian Christ Passionate Christian Inspirational Noise Passionate Love Jingles

Author:William Wilberforce

“If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.”

Ifs Should Political Moral Christianity Principles Influence Effects Gains Welfare True Religion True Christianity Estimating

Author:William Wilberforce

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Facts Seems Might Love Someone Loving You Heartless If You Love Someone

Author:William Wilberforce