Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
William BarclayThe word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
William BarclayWe will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
William BarclayThe greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.
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