Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great. — William Barclay Clear Copy Share Image
There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ. — William Barclay Christ Copy Share Image
The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence. — William Barclay Danger Copy Share Image
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. — William Barclay Awful Copy Share Image
A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God. — William Barclay Believe Copy Share Image
A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. — William Barclay Condemned Copy Share Image
Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to… — William Barclay Doe Copy Share Image
The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ. — William Barclay Best way Copy Share Image
True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal… — William Barclay Immortal Copy Share Image
The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take… — William Barclay Amount Copy Share Image
We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way… — William Barclay Chosen Copy Share Image
There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is… — William Barclay Accepting Copy Share Image
We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others… — William Barclay Christian 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
I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at… — William Barclay Forgiven 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 Able 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 Broken Copy Share Image
There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If… — William Barclay Certain 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… — William Barclay Christian Copy Share Image
“For Paul, the centre of the Christian faith was that we can never earn or deserve the favour of God, nor do… — William Barclay Christian faith Copy Share Image
God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of… — William Barclay Abraham 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 Being true Copy Share Image
It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When… — William Barclay Arms Copy Share Image
Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which… — William Barclay Activity Copy Share Image
Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as… — William Barclay Ambition 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 Born 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 Christianity Copy Share Image
Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares. — William Barclay Care Copy Share Image
The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity. — William Barclay Awful Copy Share Image
“The people who get the best out of others are those who insist on seeing them at their best.” — William Barclay Insist 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 Christian Copy Share Image
Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience. — William Barclay Christianity 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
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. — William Barclay Born 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
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
