101 Quotes by William Barclay

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.

The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.

Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate sin itself.

Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.

Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience.

Self-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.

The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.