Samuel Wilberforce famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit.
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The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.
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O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.
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A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.
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If I were a cassowary On the plains of Timbuctoo, I would eat a missionary, Cassock, band, and hymn-book too.
-- Samuel Wilberforce
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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.
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The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
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If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
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In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion.
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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.
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Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.
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If our Christianity doesn’t work at home, it doesn’t work.
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Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
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I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
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We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.
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