101 Quotes by 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 situation.

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

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.

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

Even if we are separated from people, and even if there is no other gift which we can give to them, we can surround them with the strength and the defence of our prayers.

For Paul, the centre of the Christian faith was that we can never earn or deserve the favour of God, nor do we need to. The whole matter is one of grace, and all that we can do is to accept in wondering love and gratitude and trust what God has done for us.

We reverence God and we hallow God’s name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.

The glory of God is not that of a despotic tyrant, but the splendour of love before which we fall not in abject terror but lost in wonder, love and praise.

Loyalty to Christ may produce a cross on earth, but it brings a crown in eternity.