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, Always, Christ, Easter
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
- William Barclay
Birthday, Discover, Born, Person
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
Own, Going, Still, Insist
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
- William Barclay
Strength, Hard Thing, Bear
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
- William Barclay
God, Himself, Took, Flesh
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
Through, Christ, Doubts, Attained
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
Think, Away, Given, Compensation
A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
- William Barclay
Doing, Nothing, May, Condemned
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
Will, May, Resent, Hand
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
Love, Alive, Whole, Hearts
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
Need, Jesus, Ever, Speculate
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.
- William Barclay
Will, Always, Separate, Heaven
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
- William Barclay
Eternity, Importance, Awful, Determines
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, Ways, Surely, Duty
Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
- William Barclay
Men, Cannot, Fails, Speak
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