The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.
William Barclay (2000). “Growing in Christian Faith: A Book of Daily Readings”, p.13, Westminster John Knox Press
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