The glory of God is not that of a despotic tyrant, but the splendour of love before which we fall not in abject terror but lost in wonder, love and praise.
From the immortal pen of William Barclay
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With many peaceful blessings
Geoffrey
William Barclay was born on December 5th 1907 in Wick, Scotland, and passed away on January 24th 1978 in Glasgow, Scotland.
Barclay was a Church of Scotland Minister and a Professor of Divinity and Biblical criticism at the University of Glasgow.
He was very well known for the many radio and television programmes in which he participated.
He specialised in the New Testament and wrote numerous books containing easily understood commentaries on all the chapters within the New Testament.
And today, a large number of preachers regularly use his commentaries when preparing their sermons.
Here are just a few of his quotes:-
* Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
* A man may well be condemned, not for doing something but for doing nothing.
* The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
* Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
* The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God
* We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
WISE words, indeed!
Have a wonderful day, wherever you are and whatever you may be doing.
With many blessings of loving abundance
Geoffrey
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