Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience. — 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 glory of God is not that of a despotic tyrant, but the splendour of love before which we fall not in… — William Barclay 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 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 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 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
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face… — 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
When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes… — 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
