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If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
William Barclay
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William Barclay
Age: 70 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 5
Died: 1978
Died: January 24
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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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It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us.
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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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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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...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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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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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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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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Self-defense is a part of the law of nature nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.
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Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
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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.
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Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
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In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.
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God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
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The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.
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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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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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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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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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