William Barclay Quotes
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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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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; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . .
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Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.
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Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
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Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
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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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We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to 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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Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.
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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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Christianity does not think of man finally submitting to the power of God, it thinks of Him as finally surrendering to the love of God. It is not that man's will is crushed, but that man's heart is broken.
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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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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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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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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 is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands.
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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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The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
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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 its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.
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In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.
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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 best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.
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Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
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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 them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.