Quotes from William Barclay
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.
- William Barclay
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
- William Barclay
There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.
- William Barclay
A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.
- William Barclay
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.
- William Barclay
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
- William Barclay
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.
- William Barclay
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.
- William Barclay
We have a 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
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.
- William Barclay
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 Barclay
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
- William Barclay