William Barclay Quotes

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.

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

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.

The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.

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

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

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.

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

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.

So often we have a kind of vague wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

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.

To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.