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William Barclay
A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. Always give without remembering; always receive without forgetting. Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. If 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. In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. 
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. The fact remains that there is no conceivable way of proving that we love God other than by loving men. And there is no conceivable way of proving that we love men than by doing something for those who most need help. The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why. We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. When a man undergoes treatment from a doctor, he does not need to know the way in which the drug works on his body in order to be cured. There is a sense in which Christianity is like that. At the heart of Christianity there is a mystery, but it is not the mystery of intellectual appreciation; it, the mystery of redemption. When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
Profile / BiographyWilliam Barclay was a member of the Church of Scotland clergy who dedicated his life to the service of Christianity and who tried to make the teachings of Christ more easily accessible to the everyday person. Born in 1907, Barclay became a professor at Glasgow University in 1963 in the area of Divinity and Biblical Criticism, and remained there until his death in 1978. He also served as a minister (as noted above), author, and a presenter on both radio and television. His books include The Apostle’s Creed, The Parables of Jesus, The Ten Commandments, A Plain Man Looks at the Ten Commandments, Discovering Jesus, At the Last Trumpet: Jesus Christ and the End of Time, The Mind of Jesus, and A Spiritual Autobiography. All of these works were written as a means of bringing the spirit of Christianity back among the masses. Barclay’s most famous work and the culmination of his life efforts and goals was the massive The Daily Study Bible. This work was and is made available in 17 volumes, and is a set of commentaries, verse by verse, on the New Testament in layman’s terms. The work includes background information and all possible interpretation s that Barclay had heard, and every volume was a bestseller. There is a similar work on the Old Testament, endorsed but not authored by Barclay. Also Check Out http://www.christiansuccessweekly.com |