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
friendship wish helping
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.
jesus promise
Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
jesus mercy-of-god self
So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.
prayer asking want
True prayer is asking God what He wants.
christian jesus heaven
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.
jesus stars fighting
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.
life feelings faithful
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.
jesus attitude teaching
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.
motivational people way
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.
spiritual kindness men
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
christian kindness real
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
inspirational heart men
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.
inspirational life taken
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
inspirational-life men forget
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.