The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.
William BarclayPride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
William BarclayInstead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
William BarclayThe Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
William BarclayMore people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.
William Barclay