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William Barclay Quotes

«There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why.»
Author: William Barclay | Keywords: Born, days, discover, In a, why
«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.»
Author: William Barclay | Keywords: alive, company, with that
«Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.»
Author: William Barclay | About: Endurance | Keywords: bear, endurance, glory
«Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.»
«The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.»
«Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. . . .»
«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.»
«It has always been fairly safe to talk about God; it is when we start to talk about men that the trouble starts. And yet the fact remains that there is no conceivable way of proving that we love God other than by loving men. And there is no conceivable way of proving that we love men than by doing something for those who most need help.»
«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.»
«For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.»

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