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William Barclay
6 quotes
“Jesus teaches that human need must always be helped; that there is no greater task than to relieve someone's pain and distress and that the Christian's compassion must be like God's—unceasing. Other work may be laid aside but the work of compassion never.”
William Barclay (1907–1978) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vol. 1 (Revised edition. Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, 1975), p. 183
“All life is based on the fact that anything worth getting is hard to get. There is a price to be paid for anything. Scholarship can only be bought at the price of study, skill of craft or technique can only be bought at the price of practice, and eminence in any sport can only be bought at the price of training and discipline.”
William Barclay (1907–1978) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vol. 2 (1964), p. 77
“It is only by refusing to accept the situation that in the end we can change the situation.”
William Barclay (1907–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Any creed or ideology or religion must be known and tested by its fruits, and its fruits are people.”
William Barclay (1907–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(a) To be spiritually dead is to have stopped trying. It is to have come to look on all faults as ineradicable and all virtues as unattainable.[…](b) To be spiritually dead is to have stopped feeling.[…] When compassion goes the heart is dead.(c) To be spiritually dead is to have stopped thinking.[…] The day when the desire to learn leaves us, the day when new truths, new methods, new thought become simply a disturbance with which we cannot be bothered, is the day of our spiritual death.(d) To be spiritually dead is to have stopped repenting. The day when a man can sin in peace is the day of his spiritual death.”
William Barclay (1907–1978) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vol. 1 (Revised edition. Edinburgh: The Saint Andrew Press, 1975), p. 192
“When two people speak about a trial marriage, in which they live together without being married, they are not really reproducing the conditions of marriage, for they are not in a binding situation, which is the very essence of marriage, but in a quite impermanent situation out of which either may walk at any time. They are in a situation in which at any moment they can freely walk out of their problems instead of a situation in which they have to solve their problems, or wreck the situation. The whole point about marriage is that marriage can never be an experiment; it has to be a commitment; no one can experiment with a commitment; a commitment has to be accepted or refused.”
William Barclay (1907–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source