William Barclay Quotes

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.

There's no believing in God...We either know God, or we don't.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

Try to live as if there were a God

You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

Sanctification will be drudgery unless we believe that holiness is possible and that it is pleasing to God.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.

Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.

I’ve never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view... If you’re involved with imagination and the creative process, it’s not such a difficult thing to believe in a god. But I’m not involved in any religions.

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.