William Barclay Quotes

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• Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and…
• The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist…
• A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
• The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
• If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the…
• God himself took this human flesh upon him.
• We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
• 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 may…
• In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all…
• We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade…
• There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
• Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
• It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
• When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the…
• The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
• One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold…
• ...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a…
• A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
• I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and…
• For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know…

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