William Barclay Quotes

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 to make use of us.

William Barclay

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• There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Way
  • Natural
  • Order

• Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Order

• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Heart
  • Church

• The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Will
  • Order
  • Divine

• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Change
  • Situation
  • Able

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

  

  P. D. James
  • Story
  • Order
  • Detective

• I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Day
  • Prayer

• Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Important
  • Prayer
  • Most

• Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Prayer
  • Lips

• We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Mind
  • Prayer
  • Thank You

• Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender who started out so young and strong only to surrender

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Strong
  • Prayer

• We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Different
  • Prayer

• Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.

  

  Albert Pike
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Progress

• What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Help
  • Death
  • Prayer

• We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Love
  • Action
  • Jesus

• The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • God
  • Art
  • Prayer

• There won't remain a single Jew that we will need to defend beyond the fence.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Single
  • Fence
  • Defend

• Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Believe
  • Suffering
  • Memory

• Engels once called the British army the most brutal army. During the Second World War, the German fascist army surpassed the barbarism of the British army. No human brain could ever imagine more diabolic and terrible cruelty then those done by the Hitler gangsters at that time. But in Korea, the Americans have far exceed the Hitlerites!

  

  Kim Il-sung
  • Time
  • World
  • Done

• 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 to make use of us.

  

  William Barclay
  • Prayer
  • Able
  • Order