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
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.
block men path
Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.
jesus selfish ambition
Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.
light way eternity
The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.
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 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.
christianity personal-experiences
Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience.
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.
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.
fear awful life-is
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
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.
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.
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.