William Wilberforce

If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

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.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

My walk is a public one. 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.

I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

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

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.