William Barclay Quotes

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

Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

Whatever your religion, you have to find internal happiness, which I found.

I just need to be myself and allow things to happen. If it's God's will, good things will happen.

Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

Knowing that we are fulfilling God's purpose is the only thing that gives rest to the restless human heart.

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace.

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.

Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up, Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.

Religion without joy-it is no religion.