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
sacrifice son men
The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.
jesus men easy
Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
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.
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 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.
christian kindness real
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
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.
people becoming should
If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
christian encouragement appreciation
One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian 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.