Top 100 Barclay Quotes
#1. I'm trying to compliment you," Barclay say. "Can't you just say thanks?
Elizabeth Norris
#2. If you like Harlan Coben, you'll love Linwood Barclay.
Peter Robinson
#3. Our God is a three-part being (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). Mark T. Barclay-The Missing Red Letters
Mark T. Barclay
#4. Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.
Dwight Schultz
#5. That guy should be in porn films." Barclay frowned. "Why's that then, Allan?" Ward looked at him. "Tell me, Tam, when did you last see a bigger prick?
Ian Rankin
#6. A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
William Barclay
#7. We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.
William Barclay
#8. Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.
Linwood Barclay
#9. The worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.
Florence L. Barclay
#10. When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.
Linwood Barclay
#11. Allow [Jesus] the access to that old nature through total surrender to Him and His Word. Once you do this without reservation, you will enter a new conquering lifestyle as well as a higher quality of life.
John 8:36
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Mark T. Barclay
#12. I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me.
William Barclay
#13. He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?
Robert Barclay
#14. Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the same time: 'Hey! Let's set up the slide projector!'
Linwood Barclay
#15. 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
#16. Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a better school for would-be novelists, I don't know what it is.
Linwood Barclay
#17. To repent means to realize that the kind of life we are living is wrong and that we must adopt a completely new set of values. To that end, it involves two things. It involves sorrow for what we have been and it involves the resolve that by the grace of God we will be changed.
William Barclay
#18. Darren Criss in particular enjoys his spanking. In case you were curious.
Paris Barclay
#19. God tested Abraham. Temptation is not meant to make us fail; it is meant to confront us with a situation out of which we emerge stronger than we were. Temptation is not the penalty of manhood; it is the glory of manhood.
William Barclay
#21. 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
#22. 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.
William Barclay
#23. So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
Robert Barclay
#24. Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way.
Donald A. Barclay
#25. Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.
Linwood Barclay
#26. Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.
Linwood Barclay
#27. The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
William Barclay
#28. 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 the ways we can.
William Barclay
#29. You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even if they don't know how to fix it, I always seem to find a way. 'Trust Your Eyes' is the best book I've written, and I don't know if I can do any better.
Linwood Barclay
#30. The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
William Barclay
#31. There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay
#32. We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.
William Barclay
#33. Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead lawns, digestive disorders, you name it, if it was something that had gone horribly wrong, it was worth banging out 600 words about.
Linwood Barclay
#36. It occurred to me that with all of today's technologies, there were now more ways than ever to know with abosolute certainty that no one wanted to get in touch with me
Linwood Barclay
#37. Sometimes, it's easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It's like there's less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn't know you.
Linwood Barclay
#38. The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.
William Barclay
#39. We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country. We have it all here, plus George W. Bush is not our president.
Linwood Barclay
#40. Remember yesterday.
Live for today.
Dream for tomorrow.
A. Barclay
#41. We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good ...
William Barclay
#42. We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!
Florence L. Barclay
#43. If being an asshole was all it took to get yourself killed, you and I would have been dead long ago.
Linwood Barclay
#44. Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.
Linwood Barclay
#45. When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
William Barclay
#46. Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.
William Barclay
#47. It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
William Barclay
#48. I don't subscribe much to the belief that things happen for a reason, that there's some higher power at the controls, directing all of us like we're in some cosmic summer stock production. Shit just happens is more or less my philosophy.
Linwood Barclay
#49. To my thinking, offence has no possible place in genuine friendship. The one pained always forestalls offence by the realization of non-intention to wound on the part of the other.
Florence L. Barclay
#50. For Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.
William Barclay
#51. 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
#52. 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.
William Barclay
#53. There is no joy in the world like the joy of bringing one soul to Christ.
William Barclay
#54. His voice might be stern, but in the sternness there was still the accent of yearning love; his eyes might flash fire, but the flame was the flame of love.
William Barclay
#56. In the way of Christ the reward of work well done is more work to do.
William Barclay
#57. Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
William Barclay
#58. Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.
William Barclay
#59. The only way to get our values right is to see, not the beginning, but the end of the way, to see things not only in the light of time but in the light of Eternity.
William Barclay
#60. We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
William Barclay
#61. Jesus promised his disciples three things - that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
William Barclay
#62. To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which they can see and know and understand.
William Barclay
#63. Loyalty to Christ may produce a cross on earth, but it brings a crown in eternity.
William Barclay
#64. You're not limited by your circumstances only by your imagination.
Paris Barclay
#65. Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.
William Barclay
#66. The greatest thing is a life of obedience in the routine things of everyday life. No amount of fine feeling can take the place of faithful doing.
William Barclay
#67. You cannot relate to your pastor properly until you have thoroughly, in your heart, made him your pastor.
Mark T. Barclay
#68. There are certain things which are lost by being kept and saved by being used. Any individual talent is like that. If it is used, it will develop into something still greater. If someone refuses to use it, in the end that talent will be lost. Supremely so, life is like that.
William Barclay
#69. We come to the house of the Lord to study the Word of the Lord and learn how to live according to the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, so when we step out of the church building and enter back into the activities of life, we can conquer the hindrances and attacks against us.
Mark T. Barclay
#70. You suck at working with someone, I say, because it's true.
Elizabeth Norris
#71. The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
William Barclay
#72. For Paul, the centre of the Christian faith was that we can never earn or deserve the favour of God, nor do we need to. The whole matter is one of grace, and all that we can do is to accept in wondering love and gratitude and trust what God has done for us.
William Barclay
#73. Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average family's bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg!
Linwood Barclay
#74. There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.
William Barclay
#75. These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.
Linwood Barclay
#76. The simple fact is that the World is too busy to give the Holy Spirit a chance to enter in.
William Barclay
#77. It's not who wins the fight that's important, it's being willing to fight. If you get challenged and renege, everyone wants to take a shot at you.
Barclay Plager
#79. If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
William Barclay
#80. I suggest you stick to your needlework." "Only if I can stitch your lips shut.
Suzanne Barclay
#81. Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit.
Robert Barclay
#82. The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.
William Barclay
#83. Christianity does not look on this world as one which God very occasionally invades; it looks on it as a world from which he is never absent.
William Barclay
#84. Of the 545 Lok Sabha seats, two are reserved for Indians of European descent and filled up through nominations.
Francis Barclay
#85. threatened Joel, intimidated him into doing it.' But even if that were
Linwood Barclay
#86. Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon ... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.
William Barclay
#87. Even if we are separated from people, and even if there is no other gift which we can give to them, we can surround them with the strength and the defence of our prayers.
William Barclay
#88. Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
William Barclay
#89. 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
#90. It's hard to make things right for everyone."
"But if everybody helped just one person, lots of people would get helped.
Linwood Barclay
#91. I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.
Linwood Barclay
#92. Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
William Barclay
#93. Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience.
William Barclay
#94. There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.
William Barclay
#95. When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
William Barclay
#96. Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.
Linwood Barclay
#97. Strict orthodoxy can cost too much if it has to be bought at the price of love. All the orthodoxy in the world will never take the place of love.
William Barclay
#98. It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
William Barclay
#99. Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate sin itself.
William Barclay
#100. The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.
William Barclay
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