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
christian prayer voice
It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.
christian mean being-free
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
christian names honor
We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
christian men may
We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . .
christian men partners
The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.
christian men perfect
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
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.
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.
christian pride parent
Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
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.
thinking christianity easy
It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
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.
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.