All William Barclay Quotes
- Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. Cannot Speak
- So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into… Believe
- The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more… All
- We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man… Appreciation
- If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude… Accept
- But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will… Any
- More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world. All
- Jesus is the yes to every promise of God. Every Promise
- Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares. Care
- Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be… Able
- It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at… Arms
- The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son. All
- There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ. Bringing
- 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… Deliver
- Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience. Christianity
- Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ. Christ
- It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out of… All
- Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God. Cultivate
- Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought. Christian
- Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate sin itself. Consequence
- The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence. Danger
- When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are… Alive
- It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we… Altar
- We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see;… Able
- Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not… Activity