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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

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William Barclay
Age: 70 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 5
Died: 1978
Died: January 24
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Classical Scholar
Theologian
University Teacher
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The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
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I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.
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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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Self-defense is a part of the law of nature nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
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There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life it is to accept and do the will of God.
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The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
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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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If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
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God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
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It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
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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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Prayer will never do our work for us what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
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The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
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A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
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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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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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A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.
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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.
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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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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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