Samuel Wilberforce quotes

Samuel Wilberforce quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit.”
-- Samuel Wilberforce

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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.”
-- Samuel Wilberforce

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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.”
-- Samuel Wilberforce

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“A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.”
-- Samuel Wilberforce

Source : "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, p. 74, 1898.

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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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