William Barclay Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

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

  William Barclay

  Faith, Thinking, Christianity

  William Barclay (1964). “The Gospel of John”

• 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, People, Giving

• The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Religious, Clothes

  William Barclay (2000). “Growing in Christian Faith: A Book of Daily Readings”, p.13, Westminster John Knox Press

• Christianity does not think of man finally submitting to the power of God, it thinks of Him as finally surrendering to the love of God. It is not that man's will is crushed, but that man's heart is broken.

  William Barclay

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

  William Barclay (2000). “New Testament Words”, p.23, Westminster John Knox Press

• We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . .

  William Barclay

  Christian, Men, May

• The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

  William Barclay

  Son, Sacrifice, Men

  William Barclay (2003). “Day by Day with William Barclay: Selected Readings for Daily Reflection”, Hendrickson Publishers

• 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

  Christianity, Personal Experiences

  "The Apostles' Creed".

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