Great Quotes of William Barclay

20 Great Quotes By William Barclay

1. There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why - William Barclay.

2. A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing - William Barclay.

3. Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory - William Barclay.

4. We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; We are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him - William Barclay.

5. 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 - William Barclay.

6. The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity - William Barclay.

7. 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 - William Barclay.

8. When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer - William Barclay.

9. We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away - William Barclay.

10. 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 - William Barclay.

11. Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are - William Barclay.

12. But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from him any more - William Barclay.

13. If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach - William Barclay.

14. For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him - William Barclay.

15. It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so - William Barclay.

16. 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 - William Barclay.

17. So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man - William Barclay.

18. 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 - William Barclay.

19. If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach - William Barclay.

20. The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible - William Barclay.

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