Quotes from William Barclay

what Jesus is saying is: 'I am setting you a hard task, and I am sending you out on a very difficult engagement. But I am going to send you someone, the parakl?tos, who will guide you as to what to do and enable you to do it.

He will be the cause whereby many will rise. Long ago Seneca said that what people needed above all was a hand let down to lift them up. It is the hand of Jesus which lifts us out of the old life and into the new, out of the sin into the goodness, out of the shame into the glory.

It is characteristic of modern outlook that we want quick results.

Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.

Here is the death of human pride. Beside the glory of Christ, all human titles are of no importance and all human claims become ridiculous.

If all the other noble qualities of life were placed in the balance against it, loyalty would outweigh them all.

Whenever religion becomes a depressing affair of burdens and prohibitions, it ceases to be true religion.

Jesus is to God as we must be to Jesus.

Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but God, and who hate nothing but sin, and who know nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified, and I will shake the world.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

Jesus' coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.

The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

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.

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.

The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

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

There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

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.

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.

We have a 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.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.