God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory… — William Barclay 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 face and to master the situation. — 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
