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
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.
prayer done
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
appreciation cheer blessed
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.
christian men may
We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . .
independence prosperity danger
The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
sorry hate real
Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate sin itself.
christian mean being-free
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
waiting soul should
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.