William Barclay Quotes, Thoughts and Image
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
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.
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.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
True prayer is asking God what He wants.
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands.
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.
The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.
Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.
Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
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.
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
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.
The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.