William Wilberforce Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von William Wilberforce:

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.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

William Wilberforce

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

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

William Wilberforce

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

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.

William Wilberforce

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

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.

William Wilberforce