Quotes from William Barclay

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.

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.

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

The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by God and in love with God.

It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.

Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love.

True prayer is asking God what He wants.

Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

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.

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.

True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

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.

Agape, the Christian word, means unconquerable benevolence. It means that, no matter what people may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation, we will never seek anything else but their highest good. It

His very use of parables shows that it was his conviction that the things of this world can lead a man's thoughts direct to God, if he will only see.

A reverent agnosticism can be on occasion a better evangelism than a religion which knows all the answers.

In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.