When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the distant becomes the near; strangeness becomes intimacy and fear becomes love. (2) We enter into… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
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… — 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