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William Barclay Inspirational Quotes (69)

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Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.
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It may well be a sign of the decadence of the Church and the failure of Christianity that gifts have to be coaxed out of people, and that often they will not give at all unless they get something for their money in the way of entertainment or of goods. Giving which is real giving has a certain recklessness in it.
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The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.
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Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
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Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like it means being free to do as we ought.
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Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.
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Prayer is not a way of making use of God prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
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We may not understand how the spirit works but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . .
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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.
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If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
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True prayer is asking God what He wants.
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To repent means to realize that the kind of life we are living is wrong and that we must adopt a completely new set of values. To that end, it involves two things. It involves sorrow for what we have been and it involves the resolve that by the grace of God we will be changed.
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Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.
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Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
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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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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.
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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.
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