Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.
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 BarclayThere is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
William BarclayThere is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.
William BarclayFaith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.
William BarclayIt may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us.
William Barclay