William Wilberforce Quotes

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.

Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it's worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but it must be nurtured and invigorated!

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way.

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most.

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

The church is the gym of the soul.

if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul

The body is the garden of the soul.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.