Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Christianity does not think of man finally submitting to the power of God, it thinks of Him as finally surrendering to the… — William Barclay 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
We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has… — 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 Copy Share Image
It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be… — William Barclay 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 perfect consummation,… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself. — William Barclay 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 cowardly peace… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
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… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come. — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a… — 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 head and… — William Barclay 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 God. — William Barclay 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 can in… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
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