Beilby Porteus
Beilby Porteus
Beilby Porteus, successively Bishop of Chester and of London was a Church of England reformer and a leading abolitionist in England. He was the first Anglican in a position of authority to seriously challenge the Church's position on slavery...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 May 1731
Beilby Porteus quotes about
love-is divine description
Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express
action bad-thoughts bad-actions
Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.