William Barclay Quotes

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

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.

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

Tags: god, life, world, tragedy

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William Barclay may refer to:

William Barclay (jurist) (1546–1608), Scottish jurist
William Barclay (writer) (c. 1570–c. 1630), Scottish writer
William Barclay (painter) (1797–1859), English miniature painter
William Barclay (theologian) (1907–1978), theologian and writer of Bible commentaries
William Barclay (New York politician) (born 1969), New York State Assemblyman
William Barclay (Northern Ireland politician) (1873–1945), Northern Irish Senator
William Edward Barclay (1857–1917), football manager of Everton and of Liverpool

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.

William Barclay

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.

William Barclay

Tags: love, easter, responsibility, face

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

William Barclay

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

William Barclay

Tags: religion, men, speak, cannot

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

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

Tags: courage

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

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

Tags: faith, unity

Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

William Barclay

Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

William Barclay

Tags: happiness

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

William Barclay

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

William Barclay

Tags: helping, people

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

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

Tags: peace, mind, life, father, child

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.

William Barclay

Tags: endurance, ability, glory