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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Lazy, Trouble, Danger

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• A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

  William Barclay

  Believe, Saint, Believe In God

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

  William Barclay

  Men, May, Doing Nothing

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• 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

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• It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Miracle, Triumph

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• The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Men, Perfect

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• 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

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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Believe, Men

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• Self-defense is a part of the law of nature;
  nor can it be denied the community,
  even against the king himself.

  William Barclay

  Kings, Equality, Self

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

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Men, Easy

  William Barclay (2000). “Growing in Christian Faith: A Book of Daily Readings”, p.78, Westminster John Knox Press

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• 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

  Life Is Like, Use, Individual Talent

  William Barclay (2014). “Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B”, p.88, Saint Andrew Press

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• If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude to his fellow men. The only possible proof that a man loves God is the demonstrated fact that he loves his fellow men.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Attitude, Teaching

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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Children, Father, Believe

  William Barclay (1998). “We Have Seen the Lord!: The Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ”, p.87, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

  William Barclay

  Men, Speak, Failing

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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Heart, Alive, Company

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

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• Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Finals, Care

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• Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.

  William Barclay

  Waiting, Soul, Should

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

  William Barclay

  Book, Simple, New Testament

  William Barclay (1961). “The Making of the Bible”

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• Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Depressing, People

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• 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

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Heaven, Definitions

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

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

  William Barclay

  Christian, Goal, Joy

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

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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Love Is, Victory, Triumph

  William Barclay (1977). “William Barclay: A Spiritual Autobiography”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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

  William Barclay

  Christian, Men, Partners

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

  William Barclay

  Work Well Done, Rewards, Way

  William Barclay “Bible Commentaries the revelation of john”, ktab INC.

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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Cost, World, Too Much

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