Samuel Wilberforce byl anglikánský biskup.
„Křesťanství lze shrnout do čtyř slov: přijmi, podrob se, zaslib se a šiř.“
Originál: (en) Christianity can be condensed into four words: admit, submit, commit and transmit.
Zdroj: [McDowell, Sean, 2010, Apologetics Study Bible For Students, B&H Publishing Group, 1212, angličtina]
“Modern liberalism: a heartless steam engine.”
Quoted in Arthur Burns, "Wilberforce, Samuel (1805–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
“Is it on your grandmother’s or grandfather’s side that you are descended from an ape?”
To Thomas Henry Huxley, debating Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/evolution/how-did-evol-theory-develop/the-story/index.html
“Shabby, word-eating, pocket-picketing, sacrilegious villains.”
Of the Whig party.
Quoted in Arthur Burns, "Wilberforce, Samuel (1805–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
“A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.”
Quoted in Stuart Dodgson Collingwood, The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 74
