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| William Wilberforce’s famous quote [PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.epm.org/blog/2013/Jul/1/look-other-way] |
Wilberforce on faith, responsibility,
and more
1. “No one expects to attain to the
height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without
vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we
expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.”
2. “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.”
3. “Great indeed are our
opportunities; great also is our responsibility.”
4. “What plea can we have to urge
in our defense, if we remain willingly and obstinately ignorant of the way
which leads to life with such transcendent means of knowing it?”
5. “Ingratitude sickens the heart, and
chills and thickens the very life’s blood of benevolence.”
6. “It is the distinguishing glory of
Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify
the motives,
and purify the heart.”
7. “Our enmities soften and melt away;
we are ashamed of thinking much of the petty
injuries which we may have suffered, when we consider what the
Son of God, ‘who did no wrong, neither was guile found in his mouth,’ patiently
endured.”
8. “Christ should be a Christian’s
delight and glory. I will endeavor by God’s help to excite in myself an anxiety
and longing for the joys of heaven . . .”
9. “Christianity recognizes no innocence or goodness of heart, but in
the remission of sin, and in the effects of the operation of divine grace.”
10. “Wherever we direct our view, we
discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or
modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world
around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or
act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.”
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