If. . . a principle of true Religion [i. e. , true Christianity] should. . . gain ground, … - William Wilberforce

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Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.

William Wilberforce

If. . . a principle of true Religion [i. e. , true Christianity] should. . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

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You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

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To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate

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So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.

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There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God, commit it to our hearts and minds, submit to it, and transmit it to the world.

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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.

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