Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him,… — William Barclay 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 Copy Share Image
The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ. — William Barclay Best way 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… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience. — William Barclay Christianity 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 Christian Copy Share Image
“The people who get the best out of others are those who insist on seeing them at their best.” — William Barclay Copy Share Image
We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at… — William Barclay 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 Copy Share Image
God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of… — William Barclay Abraham Copy Share Image
“For Paul, the centre of the Christian faith was that we can never earn or deserve the favour of God, nor do… — William Barclay Christian faith Copy Share Image
There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If… — 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… — William Barclay Christian Copy Share Image
Christianity does not think of man finally submitting to the power of God, it thinks of Him as finally surrendering to the… — William Barclay 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 Copy Share Image
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself. — William Barclay Bearing arms 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 Copy Share Image
We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others… — William Barclay Christian Copy Share Image
There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God. — William Barclay Grace 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
...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
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
The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son. — William Barclay Christianity 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
It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced. — William Barclay Christian life 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 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
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done. — William Barclay 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
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
“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
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
Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands. — William Barclay Christ 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
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