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 BarclayThere 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.
William BarclayThe simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.
William BarclayPrayer 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.
William BarclayReal repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.
William BarclayIt may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us.
William Barclay