William Barclay

“The two biggest causes of unhappiness are living in the past and observing others.”

“The first duty of the gospel is to make people think.”

“A man who is master of himself is the man who is master of all.”

“The task of the preacher is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.”

“The Christian is a man who can be certain of the ultimate triumph of goodness.”

“Always the best stimulus to effort is the privilege of service.”

“Peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of Christ.”

“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.”

“Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice.”

“Faith is the conviction that there is a power at work in the world that is stronger than all the powers of evil.”

“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”

“The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.”

“Joy is not the absence of suffering. It is the presence of God.”

“The one thing that makes life worth living is to serve God and to serve our fellow-men.”

“We will never have a deep view of sin if we do not have a high view of God.”

“More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.”

“It is in the ordinary duties of life that we show our discipleship.”

“A sentimentalist is a man who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.”

“A man will never be fit for heaven till he is first fit for earth.”

“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”