William Barclay Quotes

I feel it's God's work to convey a message.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.

God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you.

If you are going to be used by God, He will take you through a number of experiences that are not meant for you personally at all. They are designed to make you useful in His hands, and to enable you to understand what takes place in the lives of others.

Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It’s far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done and whatever I do in the future, I consider myself as an agent of the will of God.

God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.

What an encouragement to realize that God has reserved you and me for a special task in His great work. In His hands we're not only useful, but priceless.

It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.

Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.

Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast.

The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness.

It is not what I do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through me. God does not want worldly successes, He wants me. He wants my heart in submission to Him. Life is not just a few years to spend on self indulgence and career advancement. It is a privilege, a responsibility, a stewardship to be lived according to a much higher calling, God's calling. This alone gives true meaning to life.

God sent me to piss the world off!

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

Do you realize that God expects you to consider that you are actually working for Jesus Christ on your job?