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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.

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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It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.
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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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Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love.
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A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.
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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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Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
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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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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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There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.
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Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
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The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
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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 terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
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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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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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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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