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
prayer asking want
True prayer is asking God what He wants.
jesus mercy-of-god self
So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.
jesus stars fighting
If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
christian jesus heaven
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.
sacrifice son men
The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.
thinking christianity easy
It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
jesus men easy
Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
simple giving world
The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.
men doing-nothing may
A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
selfish heart men
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
jesus promise
Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
men knowing tragedy
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
commitment promise demand
Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.
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.