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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble and when to seek for a lazy and a cowa...

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So often we have a kind of vague wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The onl...

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Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in...

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Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...

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Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...

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When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his c...

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When we believe that God is Father we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his c...

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In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...

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To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which t...

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The Letters to the Philippians

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, an...

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William Barclay

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Born: 1907-12-05

Died: 1978-01-24

William Barclay (December 5, 1907 – January 24, 1978) was an Scottish author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow.More