The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
From William Wilberforce
Can one serve God and one's nation in parliament?
Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
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.
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
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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