Quotes from William Barclay

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.

Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands.

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.

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

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.