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Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
William Barclay
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William Barclay
Age: 70 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 5
Died: 1978
Died: January 24
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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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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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Prayer is not a way of making use of God prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
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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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We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
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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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Faith is not only commitment to the promises of Christ it is also commitment to his demands.
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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.
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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.
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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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The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
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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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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
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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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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.
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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
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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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Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.
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But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more
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