A collection of William Wilberforce quotes and sayings on Christianity, character, devotion, duty, slavery, giving, gratitude, slave trade, wealth etc.
Founder / Co Founder:
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Church Mission Society, St Michael's Primary School, Anti-Slavery Society
William Wilberforce was a leading English politician who spearheaded the anti-slave trade in the United States. Originally from Yorkshire, he was elected as an independent Member of Parliament. The transformation in his life came when he converted to Evangelic Christian. This transformed his belief, thoughts and practices and directed him towards reforming the political and cultural structure of the country. Together with prominent abolitionist such as Thomas Clarkson, Granville Sharp, Hannah More and Charles Middleton, he was instrumental in the passage of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. He was associated with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the foundation of an independent colony in Sierra Leone, the establishment of the Church Mission Society and British missionaries in colonial India. ‘Amazing Grace’ is a movie that showcases his noble causes and struggles during anti-slavery activism. Here is a collection of some the most thoughtful quotes from 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.
Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.
William Wilberforce
Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?
William Wilberforce
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.
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.
My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me.
True Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude
William Wilberforce
I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
William Wilberforce
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
William Wilberforce
It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.
 that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal. )
