God is love, and his promises are sure. - William Wilberforce

Said of William Wilberforce by a contemporary: “Being himself amused and interested by everything, whatever he said became amusing or interesting. . . . His presence was as fatal to dullness as to immorality. His mirth was as irresistible as the first laughter of childhood.”

There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives. -William Wilberforce -

May I prove my gratitude on earth, by giving up myself to Thy service, and living universally to Thy glory.

O Lord, I humbly hope that it is Thou who knockest at the door of my heart, who callest forth these more than usually lively emotions of contrition, desire, faith, trust, and gratitude.

O Lord, I am lost in astonishment at Thy mercy and love.

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That Thou knew me, and my hardness, and coldness, and unworthy return for all Thy goodness, when Thou calledst me from the giddy throng, and shone into my heart with the light of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ.

O Lord, I cast myself before Thee, O spurn me not from Thee; unworthy, though I am, of all Thy wonderful goodness.

O grant me more and more of humility, and love, and faith, and hope, and longing for a complete renewal into Thine image.

To Thee O Saviour of Sinners I flee for refuge. - William Wilberforce

May the God of hope fill me with all joy and peace in believing.

Oh that I were more grateful! O Lord direct and guide me, so as to make my residence here a blessing to me.

O blessed days these, which call us from the bustle of life, and warrant us in giving up our studies and our business, and cultivating communion with God.

Lord, increase my love to others for ambitions, or rather worldliness, but ill cured, often bubbling up and breaking out, though my judgement I trust does not allow them, and though I am ashamed of them.

Thou has declared that Thou wilt be found of them that seek Thee. To Thee, O Lord, I fly; O forgive and receive Thy unworthy wanderer!

O Lord, yet strengthen me, and, if it please Thee, fill me with all peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

I humbly hope that I have felt this day, and still feel, somewhat of the powers of the world to come.

O deliver me from my besetting Sin the inordinate Love of Human Estimation. - William Wilberforce

To Thee, O Lord, I humbly devote myself; O confirm me to the end.