So what is "heart"? It's courage, but courage to do what? The courage to do the right thing when all else tells you not to do it. The courage to rise above your surroundings and circumstances. The courage to be God's idea of a real man and to give of yourself for others when it costs you to do so and when everything tells you to look out for yourself first.

By the time Wilberforce experienced his "Great Change," all of the social problems that would plague eighteenth-century Britain had come to full flower, having been unchecked by the social conscience of genuine Christian faith for nearly a hundred years.

He could hardly recognize it as something that had grown out of what he had begun.

God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. In the whole of world history there is only one real significant hour ... the present ... if you want to find eternity, you must serve the times.

A seed had been pressed into the soil of his soul, and had been watered, and would soon burst and sprout green and grow beyond all possibility of concealing.

As the world recognizes Wilberforce, his work, and his Savior, let us not fall into former pits of forgetfulness.

What happened is surprisingly simple: William Wilberforce was the happy victim of his own success.

There are greater issues in life than sport, and the greatest of these is loyalty to the great laws of the soul.

Although I know full well and hear every day that many people think little of me and say that I only write little pamphlets and sermons in German for the uneducated laity, I do not let that stop me. Would to God that in my lifetime I had, to my fullest ability, helped one layman to be better!

Some wondered whether he was just kicking against the goads, but when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

The only fight which is lost is that which we give up.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.