101 Quotes by William Barclay

Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.

We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.

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

True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.

Christianity does not think of man finally submitting to the power of God, it thinks of Him as finally surrendering to the love of God. It is not that man's will is crushed, but that man's heart is broken.

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.