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• True prayer is asking God what He wants.

  William Barclay

  Prayer, Asking, Want

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• 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

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• The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

  William Barclay

  Fear, Awful, Life Is

  "The Gospel of John".

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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

  William Barclay (2000). “New Testament Words”, p.23, Westminster John Knox Press

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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Prayer, Trying, Done

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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Religious, Clothes

  William Barclay (2000). “Growing in Christian Faith: A Book of Daily Readings”, p.13, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

  William Barclay

  Men, Spirit, Worship

  William Barclay (1956). “The Gospel of John”

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• Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

  William Barclay

  Prayer, Done

  William Barclay (2014). “Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B”, p.58, Saint Andrew Press

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

  William Barclay

  Way, Forget, Christ

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• It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

  William Barclay

  Faith, Thinking, Christianity

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

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• 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

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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Names, Honor

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• We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

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  Inspirational, Life, Taken

  William Barclay (2003). “Day by Day with William Barclay: Selected Readings for Daily Reflection”, Hendrickson Publishers

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• We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

  William Barclay

  Appreciation, Cheer, Blessed

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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Life, Faith, Feelings

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• God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.

  William Barclay

  Temptation, Stronger, Failing

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• Here is an eternal truth. Life cannot be divided into compartments in some which God is involved and in others of which he is not involved... The fact is that God does not need to be invited into certain departments of life, and kept out of others. He is everywhere, all through life and in every activity of life. He hears not only the words that are spoken in his name; he hears all words; and there cannot be any such thing as a form of words which evades bringing God into any transaction. We will regard all promises as sacred if we remember that all promises are made in the presence of God.

  William Barclay

  Names, Promise, Doe

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• Certainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.

  William Barclay

  Christianity, Personal Experiences

  "The Apostles' Creed".

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• Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

  William Barclay

  Sorry, Hate, Real

  "Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B".

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• 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.

  William Barclay

  Light, Way, Eternity

  William Barclay (1956). “The Gospel of Matthew, Volume Two”, p.324, Westminster John Knox Press

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

  William Barclay

  Men, Spirit, Worship

  William Barclay (1956). “The Gospel of John”

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• A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.

  William Barclay

  Believe, Saint, Believe In God

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• ...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.

  William Barclay

  Faith, Acceptance, Intellectual

  William Barclay (1975). “The Mind of St. Paul”, HarperCollins

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

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  Block, Men, Path

  William Barclay (2002). “The Gospel of Matthew, Volume Two”, p.195, Westminster John Knox Press

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• 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”

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