So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.
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. - William Barclay
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.
- William Barclay
Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the sit… - William Barclay
Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the sit…
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world. - William Barclay
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God. - William Barclay
There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.
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. - William Barclay
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.
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life. - William Barclay
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. - William Barclay
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves. - William Barclay
If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ. - William Barclay
There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.
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