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William Barclay
Scottish
Theologian
Born:
Dec 5
,
1907
Died:
Jan 24
,
1978
God
Heaven
Life
Love
Men
Will
Related authors:
Albert Schweitzer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Hans Urs von Balthasar
John Calvin
Mary Baker Eddy
Paul Tillich
Reinhold Niebuhr
Thomas Aquinas
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay
Life
Day
Great
Birthday
Born
Days
Discover
Person
Why
Two
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
William Barclay
Ability
Bear
Glory
Just
Endurance
Turn
Hard
Hard Thing
Thing
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.
William Barclay
Love
Christ
Responsibility
Face
Sacrifice
Unless
Easter
Cross
Take
Involves
Always
His
Up
Task
Love Always
Really
Prepared
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.
William Barclay
Life
God
World
Men
Insist
Own
Way
Know
Knowing
Him
Still
Tragedy
Going
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
Time
Good
People
Duty
Our
Ways
Surely
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
William Barclay
Life
Determines
Importance
Eternity
Awful
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
Will
Christian
Enough
Like
Know
Him
Heaven
Where
Ever
Jesus
Speculate
Need
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.
William Barclay
Life
Love
Our
Alive
Only
Truly
Begins
Person
Hearts
Anyone
Really
Whole
Company
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
Life
Will
Think
Find
About
Given
More
Taken
Often
Us
Less
Away
Compensation
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
Life
God
Better
Cause
Father
Will
Believe
Needless
Never
Longer
Also
Understand
His
Hand
Child
Any
May
Resent
Tear
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
Man
Christ
Conviction
Way
Through
Attained
Never
He
Reach
Unthinkingly
Accepts
Lord
His
His Way
Doubts
Fights
Certainty
Who
Things
Jesus
Jesus Christ
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