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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
William Barclay
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William Barclay
Age: 70 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 5
Died: 1978
Died: January 24
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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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...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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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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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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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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There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
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Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.
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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.
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The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.
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There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.
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The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by God and in love with God.
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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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When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
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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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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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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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If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
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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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Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
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