William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce
English politician, philanthropist, became an evangelical Christian committed to
reform, leader of the movement that abolished the UK's slave trade
(1759-1833)
"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. "
"So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the slave Trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for Abolition. Let the consequences be what they would, I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition."
"You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know."
“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.”
“True Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude.”
"What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians."
