Michael McMullen

Professor of Christian History

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

If the use of the affections in religion, in general, be at length shown to be conformable to reason, it will not require many words to prove that our blessed Savior is the proper object of them.

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

Is it no cause of joy, "that to us is born a Savior", by whom we may "be delivered from the power of darkness; and be made meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light?"

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

What a blessed institution is the Sunday.

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

Alas! How flat I feel. This is partly bodily indeed, but it is also a good deal from the low state of religion in my mind.

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

How ungrateful men are in not seeing the hand of God in all their comforts! I am sure it greatly adds to our enjoyment to trace his hand in them.

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

What cause it is for thankfulness that I never suffer from headache.

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

Oh what blessings do I enjoy, what cause have I for gratitude!

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

'O whatever else we give up let us retain love, if we would not abandon our relation to him who states love to be the nature of existence.

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

"Amused with what Wilberforce said.."

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

"He delights in mercy, and ever remember that as you have heard me say, mercy is kindness to the guilty, to those who deserve punishment."
(Wilberforce)

[Ben Virgo @RememberLondon]

Amidst all my weakness, I can look to God through Christ, with humble hope, and even peace and joy in believing.
- William Wilberforce

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

Alas, alas, considering my opportunities, I have been a sadly unprofitable servant.

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

Oh, let me check the emotions of indolence and of trying to have done with the turmoil of this vain world of perturbations, and give way to more lively gratitude for the mercies of the Saviour, and a more active determination and consequent course of holy obedience & usefulness.

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

Let me put down that I have had of late a greater degree of religious feeling than usual.

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

Look at various other Christians who have not enjoyed half my advantages or motives to growth in grace, yet how immeasurable they exceed me!

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

How little good have I done compared with what I might have done!

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

It is, I trust, my fixed resolution to desire to please God in all things, and to devote all I have and am to his glory, through Christ and by the Holy Spirit; yet, alas, how little have I of late been living a life of communion with God.

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

Alas, alas! how much more might I have done, if I had been duly diligent and self-denying! But let me work at the eleventh hour.

[William Wilberforce @WmWilberforce]

Pardon, bless, sanctify me, and make me meet for a better world.