William Barclay Quotes
Top 52 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Barclay
William Barclay Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from William Barclay on Wise Famous Quotes.
To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience.
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature;
nor can it be denied the community,
even against the king himself.
nor can it be denied the community,
even against the king himself.
There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.
The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.
We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.
Jesus promised his disciples three things - that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
Christianity does not look on this world as one which God very occasionally invades; it looks on it as a world from which he is never absent.
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love.
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate sin itself.
Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.