We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken… — William Barclay Compensation Copy Share Image
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and… — William Barclay Heaven 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… — William Barclay Duty 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 Argument Copy Share Image
Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands. — William Barclay Christ 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… — William Barclay Humans Copy Share Image
The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men. — William Barclay Christian 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 Alive 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
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that… — William Barclay Comfort 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… — William Barclay Believe 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… — William Barclay Ends Copy Share Image
It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to… — William Barclay Altars Copy Share Image
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done. — William Barclay Done Copy Share Image
The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in. — William Barclay Busy Copy Share Image
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is… — William Barclay Christian Copy Share Image
The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son. — William Barclay Christianity Copy Share Image
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought. — William Barclay Being free Copy Share Image
...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is… — William Barclay Acceptance Copy Share Image
Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ. — William Barclay Christ 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
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
Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path. — William Barclay Block Copy Share Image
In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do. — William Barclay Christ Copy Share Image
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life. — William Barclay Busy Copy Share Image
The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence. — William Barclay Danger 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
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. — William Barclay Endurance Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that… — William Barclay Able Copy Share Image
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has… — William Barclay Black Copy Share Image
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a… — William Barclay Certainty 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 Christ 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 Accepting 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 Enjoy Copy Share Image
We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has… — William Barclay Appreciation 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 Love 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
The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship… — William Barclay Authenticity Copy Share Image
One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy… — William Barclay Appreciation Copy Share Image
We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying… — William Barclay Changed Copy Share Image
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