William Wilberforce

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

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.

Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.