William Barclay Quotes
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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 people, and that often they will not give at all unless they get something for their money in the way of entertainment or of goods. Giving which is real giving has a certain recklessness in it.
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God himself took this human flesh upon him.
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More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
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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 to take up His Cross.
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Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands.
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Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
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There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.
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There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.
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There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
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It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
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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 that we will be for ever with Him.
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The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.
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Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.
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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 still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.
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Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
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Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.
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The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
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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 harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.
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The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
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A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
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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 the ways we can.
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The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.
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In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.
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The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.