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.
prayer done
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
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.
prayer asking want
True prayer is asking God what He wants.
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.
prayer men faces
Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.
fact fairly god love loving men proving remains safe start talk trouble
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.
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I know it was him. It gave me the chills. He had a pistol in his hand, ... When I saw him, it freaked me out.
driving geneva hopefully state stop street
If shoppers come from other communities and they're driving down State Street in Geneva to or from the Commons, hopefully they'll stop by my shop,
independence prosperity danger
The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
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.
waiting soul should
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
heart alive company
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
jesus heaven definitions
But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more