William Barclay

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

— William Barclay

The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

— William Barclay

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

— William Barclay

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

— William Barclay

In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.

— William Barclay

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

— William Barclay

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

— William Barclay

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

— William Barclay

“The glory of God is not that of a despotic tyrant, but the splendour of love before which we fall not in…

— William Barclay

Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

— William Barclay

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its…

— William Barclay

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken…

— William Barclay

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

— William Barclay

Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate…

— William Barclay

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

— William Barclay

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a…

— William Barclay

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

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that…

— William Barclay

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really…

— William Barclay

The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The…

— William Barclay

We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has…

— William Barclay

To repent means to realize that the kind of life we are living is wrong and that we must adopt a completely…

— William Barclay

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face…

— William Barclay

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a…

— William Barclay

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

The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship…

— William Barclay

It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When…

— William Barclay

Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as…

— William Barclay

Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic…

— William Barclay

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

When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes…

— William Barclay

Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which…

— William Barclay

The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

— William Barclay

Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.

— William Barclay

Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.

— William Barclay

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

— William Barclay

True prayer is asking God what He wants.

— William Barclay

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

— William Barclay

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

— William Barclay

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

— William Barclay