Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
William Barclay
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Barclay
Age: 70 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 5
Died: 1978
Died: January 24
Author
Classical Scholar
Theologian
University Teacher
Wick
Highland
Perfect
Consummation
Peace
Finds
Christian
Obedience
Must
Aim
Good
Complete
Men
Highest
Life
Greatest
Happiness
More quotes by William Barclay
Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.
William Barclay
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
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.
William Barclay
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
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
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.
William Barclay
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
William Barclay
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
We may not understand how the spirit works but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good. . .
William Barclay
Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ it is also commitment to his demands.
William Barclay
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.
William Barclay
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like it means being free to do as we ought.
William Barclay
We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
William Barclay
True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
William Barclay
For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.
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.
William Barclay
We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.
William Barclay
The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.
William Barclay
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay
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
