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

William Wilberforce

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William Wilberforce
Age: 73 †
Born: 1759
Born: August 24
Died: 1833
Died: July 29
Abolitionist
British Politician
Philanthropist
Politician
Love
Measure
Exercise
Progress
Experience
Men

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I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.
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May God enable me to have a single eye and a simple heart, desiring to please God, to do good to my fellow creatures, and testify my gratitude to my adorable Redeemer.
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Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.
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No matter how loud you shout, you will not drown out the voice of the people!
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Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.
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Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.
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We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.
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As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
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Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
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God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
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Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.
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When we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make any man contradict the dictates of his conscience, the principles of justice, the laws of religion, and of God?
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true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude
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Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.
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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.
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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
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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.
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The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
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The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
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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.
William Wilberforce