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It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
William Barclay
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William Barclay
Age: 70 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 5
Died: 1978
Died: January 24
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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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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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Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
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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.
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God himself took this human flesh upon him.
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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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Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ it is also commitment to his demands.
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The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.
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In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.
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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
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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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A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
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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.
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When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
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Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
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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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If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
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There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.
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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.
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