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.
William BarclayThere are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William BarclayGod 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.
William BarclayThe Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.
William BarclayIf we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
William BarclayCertainly Christianity is an experience, but equally clearly the validity of ane experience has to be tested. There are people in lunatic asylums who have the experience of being the Emperor Napoleon or a poached egg. It is unquestionably an experience, and to them a real experience, but for all that it has no kind of universal validity. It is necessary to go far beyond simply saying that something comes from experience. Before any such thing can be evaluated at all, the source and character of the experience must clearly be investigated.
William Barclay