William Barclay Quotes

Christians do not say that people should be reduced merely to what they can produce or what they can buy - that we should let the weak go under and only the strong survive. No, we say, 'Do to others what you would have them do unto you.'

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by.

Jesus has very clearly said in the gospel. "Whatever you do, do to the least of my brethren." Clear? That was the work of Jesus.

Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

The Savior’s words are simple, yet their meaning is profound and deeply significant. We are to love God and to love and care for our neighbors as ourselves. Imagine what good we can do in the world if we all join together, united as followers of Christ, anxiously and busily responding to the needs of others and serving those around us — our families, our friends, our neighbors, our fellow citizens.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

No time is better spent than that spent in the service of your fellow man.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

… the prince of good fellows

They charge me with fanaticism. If to be feelingly alive to the suffering of my fellow creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

I have always wanted to be Number One, but I wanted power solely to help the poor and disadvantaged.

I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: "Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.

Private philanthropy is the direct expression of the great Christian principle of the brotherhood of man and the Golden Rule. Private philanthropy indeed is the only valid expression of these ethical principles; compulsory charity through 'social legislation' is the exact contrary: it is the evil imposition of force by one group on another.

Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.

I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.

My understanding of my faith is that - through a Christian framework - part of what we are called to do is to lay down our own self-interests, after the model of divinity that comes into this world in the form of Christ and lays down his life. And in order to do that, you have to care about something or someone more than yourself.

So much of what Christ's teachings are about have to do with the way that we take care of the least among us.