William Wilberforce: On difficult doctrines against vices such as love of wealth, don’t exclude yourself from applying the Scripture to your own life.

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“I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.”

William Wilberforce as recounted in 1001 Quotes, Illustrations and Humorous Stories for Preachers, Teachers, and Writers, ed. Edward K. Rowell (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997) 178.