Quotes from William Wilberforce

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

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

The problem with this way of thinking is that authentic faith cannot be inherited.

I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (Rom. 7:18). As someone has said, even the spirituality we do possess is corrupted by our nature. We have nothing to brag about. On the contrary, God must always give us grace to bear with our faults and mercy to forgive our sins.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.

Some things God has revealed; others remain mysteries.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

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

We are too young to realise that certain things are impossible.

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.

You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.

we know that our Sovereign is "Long suffering, and easy to be entreated;" more ready to grant, than we to ask, forgiveness.