Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.
William BarclayIt is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
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 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