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For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.

William Barclay
Christian, Jesus, Heaven
William Barclay (1964). “The Gospel of John”

So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.

William Barclay
Jesus, Mercy Of God, Self

Jesus is the yes to every promise of God.

William Barclay
Jesus, Promise
William Barclay (2014). “Barclay on the Lectionary: Mark, Year B”, p.65, Saint Andrew Press

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

William Barclay
Jesus, Stars, Fighting
William Barclay (1964). “The Gospel of John”

It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we have and what we are. If, just as we are, we would lay ourselves on the altar of service of Jesus Christ, there is no saying what Christ could do with us and through us.

William Barclay
Jesus, Miracle, Triumph

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

William Barclay
Jesus, Believe, Men

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

William Barclay
Jesus, Men, Easy
William Barclay (2000). “Growing in Christian Faith: A Book of Daily Readings”, p.78, Westminster John Knox Press

If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude to his fellow men. The only possible proof that a man loves God is the demonstrated fact that he loves his fellow men.

William Barclay
Jesus, Attitude, Teaching

Jesus’ coming is the final and unanswerable proof that God cares.

William Barclay
Jesus, Finals, Care

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more

William Barclay
Jesus, Heaven, Definitions
William Barclay (1964). “The Gospel of John”

Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.

William Barclay
Jesus, Selfish, Ambition
WILLIAM BARCLAY “THE LETTER TO THE PHILIPPIANS”, ktab INC.

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