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

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

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

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

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

- William Barclay

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

- William Barclay

If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.

- William Barclay

There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.

- William Barclay