...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is… — William Barclay 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 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
True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal… — 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
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so. — 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
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 be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When… — 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… — William Barclay 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
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 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
