William Barclay Quotes

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. - William Barclay

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer. - William Barclay

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. - William Barclay

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. . . - William Barclay

There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why. - William Barclay

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. - William Barclay

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. - William Barclay

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. - William Barclay

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. 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. - William Barclay

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