William Barclay Quotes

I cannot tell you what joy it gave me to bring the first soul to the Lord Jesus Christ. I have tasted almost all the pleasures that this world can give. I do not suppose there is one that I have not experienced, but I can tell you that those pleasures were as nothing compared to the joy that the saving of that one soul gave me.

The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.

God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.

Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

At a certain meeting two and a half people were converted to Christ. A friend asked if he meant, two adults and a child. The facts were just the opposite two children and an adult. When a child is led to Christ, a whole life is saved!

To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in the world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth.

Jesus continues to offer light, joy, and peace to today's generation.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

I want to save my soul, that timid wind.

True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.

Only a relationship with Christ can satisfy our hearts. Without Him we have nothing. With Him we have all things to enjoy.

The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy.

Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.

To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world.

He that seeks here any other thing but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.

What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, "I Can." You'll love how he achieves it. He reconnects your soul with God.

The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus.

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.