Quotes from William Barclay
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
- William Barclay
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
- William Barclay
Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.
- William Barclay
Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
- William Barclay
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.
- William Barclay
Agape, the Christian word, means unconquerable benevolence. It means that, no matter what people may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation, we will never seek anything else but their highest good. It
- William Barclay
His very use of parables shows that it was his conviction that the things of this world can lead a man's thoughts direct to God, if he will only see.
- William Barclay
In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.
- William Barclay
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
- William Barclay
The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.
- William Barclay
Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands.
- William Barclay
It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
- William Barclay