“All men of enlightened understandings, who acknowledge the moral government of God, must also acknowledge, that vice must offend and virtue delight him. In short they must, more or less, assent to the Scripture declaration, “without holiness no man shall see the Lord.””

— William Wilberforce

Source: Real Christianity (1797), p. 237.

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English politician 1759–1833

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