William Barclay Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
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“There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.”
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“Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.”
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“One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.”
-- William Barclay#Christian Quotes #Encouragement Quotes #Appreciation Quotes
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“We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.”
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“Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.”
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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.”
-- William BarclaySource : William Barclay (1956). “The Gospel of John”
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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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“The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.”
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“A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.”
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“If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude to his fellow men. The only possible proof that a man loves God is the demonstrated fact that he loves his fellow men.”
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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.”
-- William BarclaySource : William Barclay (1964). “The Gospel of John”
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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.”
-- William BarclaySource : William Barclay (1999). “Good Tidings of Great Joy: The Birth of Jesus the Messiah”, p.36, Westminster John Knox Press
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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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“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.”
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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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“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 a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.”
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“Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.”
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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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“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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“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
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“The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.”
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“If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.”
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“We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.”
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“A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.”
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“If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.”
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“The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.”
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“God himself took this human flesh upon him.”
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“Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate sin itself.”
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