William Barclay Quotes

If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions. Perhaps this is why President Brigham Young once said that if he could do but one thing to bless the Saints, he believed it would be to give them eyes with which to see things as they are.

Too often we concentrate only on the things we can see now; but our focus should be on that place we can only envision, but will enjoy for all eternity.

It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.

The Savior's way of life is good.

Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday

Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are responsible for the homes we build. We must build wisely, for eternity is not a short voyage. There will be calm and wind, sunlight and shadows, joy and sorrow. But if we really try, our home can be a bit of heaven here on earth. The thoughts we think, the deeds we do, the lives we live not only influence the success of our earthly journey, they also mark the way to our eternal goals.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

We ought to consider the end in everything.

If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart.

And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the 'Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.