There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. William Barclay More Quotes by William Barclay More Quotes From William Barclay 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. William Barclay cheer blessed appreciation 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. William Barclay selfish heart men The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son. William Barclay sacrifice men son 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 taken inspirational life Jesus is the yes to every promise of God. William Barclay promise jesus Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not involved... The fact is that God does not need to be invited into certain departments of life, and kept out of others. He is everywhere, all through life and in every activity of life. He hears not only the words that are spoken in his name; he hears all words; and there cannot be any such thing as a form of words which evades bringing God into any transaction. We will regard all promises as sacred if we remember that all promises are made in the presence of God. William Barclay names doe promise 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. William Barclay faith feelings life The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible. William Barclay spirit worship men Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated. William Barclay personal-experiences christianity 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. William Barclay fighting stars jesus There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that. William Barclay individual-talent life-is-like use It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out of people, and that often they will not give at all unless they get something for their money in the way of entertainment or of goods. Giving which is real giving has a certain recklessness in it. William Barclay real giving people Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ; it is also commitment to his demands. William Barclay demand commitment promise It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced. William Barclay christianity faith thinking ...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. William Barclay intellectual acceptance faith A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. William Barclay doing-nothing may men The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in. William Barclay simple giving world Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great. William Barclay easy men jesus True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible. William Barclay spirit worship men The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ. William Barclay forget way christ
