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.
driving geneva hopefully state stop street
If shoppers come from other communities and they're driving down State Street in Geneva to or from the Commons, hopefully they'll stop by my shop,
birthday good-life two
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
easter responsibility sacrifice
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
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.
sacrifice son men
The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.
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.
prayer asking want
True prayer is asking God what He wants.
inspirational-life men forget
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
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.
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.