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
freaked gave pistol saw
I know it was him. It gave me the chills. He had a pistol in his hand, ... When I saw him, it freaked me out.
prayer offering order
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
commitment promise demand
Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.
prayer asking want
True prayer is asking God what He wants.
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.
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.
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.
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.
independence prosperity danger
The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.