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.

A good orator can whip a crowd, even a Christian crowd, into a frenzy. This is not the kind of emotion that God desires. When emotion is a response to truth or to a clear comprehension of the nature of God and His goodness to us, then emotion is valuable and appropriate.

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.

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

We are all accountable: Our fallen nature is no excuse. We are responsible: God is not to blame. We stand guilty and deserving judgment. Any other teaching dilutes and refutes the true significance of the cross of Christ.

God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.

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.