Religion
- Bill Wilson (pastor) (born 1948), president and founder of Metro Ministries International
- William C. Wilson (1866–1915), General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene
- Willie Wilson (minister), Baptist minister and candidate for mayor of Washington, D.C.
- William Wilson (bishop) (1806–1888), Anglican bishop in Scotland
- William Carus Wilson (1791–1859), English churchman and founder and editor of The Children's Friend
- William Hay Wilson (1864–1935), Anglican priest
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“It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his Appetites and subduing his dearest Inclinations, but the skilful Management of wary Politicians; and the nearer we search into human Nature, the more we shall be convinced, that the Moral Virtues are the Political Offspring which Flattery begot upon Pride.”
—Bernard De Mandeville (1670–1733)
“The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, and obedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)