Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself. — William Barclay Bearing arms Copy Share Image
Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate… — William Barclay Consequence Copy Share Image
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so. — William Barclay Bible Copy Share Image
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken… — William Barclay Compensation Copy Share Image
There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a… — William Barclay Court Copy Share Image
Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself. — William Barclay Consequence Copy Share Image
We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has… — William Barclay Appreciation Copy Share Image
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that… — William Barclay Comfort Copy Share Image
If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay Certainty Copy Share Image
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face… — William Barclay Christ Copy Share Image
To repent means to realize that the kind of life we are living is wrong and that we must adopt a completely… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
“The glory of God is not that of a despotic tyrant, but the splendour of love before which we fall not in… — William Barclay Glory Copy Share Image
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him,… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is… — William Barclay Christian Copy Share Image
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company… — William Barclay Alive Copy Share Image
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced. — William Barclay Christian life Copy Share Image
The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men. — William Barclay Christian Copy Share Image
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on… — William Barclay Humans Copy Share Image
Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands. — William Barclay Christ Copy Share Image
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in… — William Barclay Argument Copy Share Image
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. — William Barclay Endurance Copy Share Image
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we… — William Barclay Duty Copy Share Image
“But in one thing I would go beyond strict orthodoxy - I am a convinced universalist. I believe that in the end… — William Barclay Love Copy Share Image
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and… — William Barclay Heaven Copy Share Image
Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ. — William Barclay Christ Copy Share Image
...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is… — William Barclay Acceptance Copy Share Image
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God. — William Barclay Grace Copy Share Image
The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son. — William Barclay Christianity Copy Share Image
