The best way to prepare for the coming of Christ is never to forget the presence of Christ.
William BarclayPride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.
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 BarclayIf a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.
William BarclayTimothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.
William Barclay