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
way forget christ
The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.
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.
names promise doe
Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not involved... The fact is that God does not need to be invited into certain departments of life, and kept out of others. He is everywhere, all through life and in every activity of life. He hears not only the words that are spoken in his name; he hears all words; and there cannot be any such thing as a form of words which evades bringing God into any transaction. We will regard all promises as sacred if we remember that all promises are made in the presence of God.
endurance bears glory
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
jesus finals care
Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.
christian religious clothes
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.
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.
heart joy mind
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.
christian men partners
The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.
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.