Quote

True prayer is asking God what He wants.

William Barclay

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Barclay
Age: 70 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 5
Died: 1978
Died: January 24
Author
Classical Scholar
Theologian
University Teacher
Wick
Highland
Asking
Wants
Prayer
True

More quotes by William Barclay

Image
There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life it is to accept and do the will of God.
William Barclay
Image
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
William Barclay
Image
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
William Barclay
Image
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.
William Barclay
Image
Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.
William Barclay
Image
We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
William Barclay
Image
The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
William Barclay
Image
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.
William Barclay
Image
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.
William Barclay
Image
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
William Barclay
Image
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.
William Barclay
Image
A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.
William Barclay
Image
In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.
William Barclay
Image
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
William Barclay
Image
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.
William Barclay
Image
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.
William Barclay
Image
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
William Barclay
Image
The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.
William Barclay
Image
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.
William Barclay
Image
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.
William Barclay