101 Quotes by William Barclay

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.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

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 shoppers come from other communities and they're driving down State Street in Geneva to or from the Commons, hopefully they'll stop by my shop,

I know it was him. It gave me the chills. He had a pistol in his hand, ... When I saw him, it freaked me out.

The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.

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.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.