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
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It has always been fairly safe to talk about God; it is when we start to talk about men that the trouble starts. And yet the fact remains that there is no conceivable way of proving that we love God other than by loving men. And there is no conceivable way of proving that we love men than by doing something for those who most need help.
jesus believe men
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
men speak failing
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
men spirit worship
The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
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.
block men path
Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.
inspirational-life men forget
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
men spirit worship
True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
inspirational heart men
Christianity does not think of man finally submitting to the power of God, it thinks of Him as finally surrendering to the love of God. It is not that man's will is crushed, but that man's heart is broken.
spiritual kindness men
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
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.