As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
William WilberforceLife 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 WilberforceMy 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.
William WilberforceThe time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?
William Wilberforce