William Barclay
William Barclay
William Barclaywas a Scottish author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth5 December 1907
William Barclay quotes about
christian pride parent
Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
prayer trying done
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.
endurance bears glory
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
kings self law
Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
christianity personal-experiences
Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience.
christian depressing people
Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.
done rewards way
In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.
temptation stronger failing
God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.
christian goal joy
We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
love-is victory return
The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by God and in love with God.
life-is-like use individual-talent
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.
christian men perfect
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
flesh humans
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
lazy trouble danger
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.