A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.

- Samuel Wilberforce

Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit.

- Samuel Wilberforce

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creato…

- Samuel Wilberforce

If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.

- Samuel Wilberforce

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.

- Samuel Wilberforce