Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
William BarclayWe are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
William BarclayPrayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.
William BarclayReal repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.
William BarclayWe are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.
William Barclay