William Barclay Quotes About Jesus

Quotes about: Jesus

• Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Promise

  William Barclay (2014). “Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B”, p.65, Saint Andrew Press

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

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Finals, Care

• For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Jesus, Heaven

  William Barclay (1964). “The Gospel of John”

• It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Miracle, Triumph

• If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude to his fellow men. The only possible proof that a man loves God is the demonstrated fact that he loves his fellow men.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Attitude, Teaching

• If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Stars, Fighting

  William Barclay (1964). “The Gospel of John”

• So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Mercy Of God, Self

• 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.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Selfish, Ambition

  WILLIAM BARCLAY “THE LETTER TO THE PHILIPPIANS”, ktab INC.

• 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

  Jesus, Believe, Men

• Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Men, Easy

  William Barclay (2000). “Growing in Christian Faith: A Book of Daily Readings”, p.78, Westminster John Knox Press

• 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

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Heaven, Definitions

  William Barclay (1964). “The Gospel of John”

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