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The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
William Barclay
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William Barclay
Age: 70 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 5
Died: 1978
Died: January 24
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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.
William Barclay
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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The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.
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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.
William Barclay
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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The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.
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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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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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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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A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
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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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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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Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.
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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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Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.
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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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True prayer is asking God what He wants.
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In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
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The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.
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