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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.

William Barclay

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William Barclay
Age: 70 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 5
Died: 1978
Died: January 24
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Classical Scholar
Theologian
University Teacher
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Time
Eternity
Beginning
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Right
Way
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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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Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.
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Prayer will never do our work for us what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
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The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.
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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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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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It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
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The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.
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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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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
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Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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