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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.

William Barclay

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William Barclay
Age: 70 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 5
Died: 1978
Died: January 24
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