Showing posts with label barclay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label barclay. Show all posts

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Efficiency

Revival in the Church comes not from increased efficiency in organization but from waiting upon God. Not that efficiency is not necessary, but no amount of efficiency can breathe life into a body from which the Spirit has departed.

William Barclay, The Daily Study Bible: the letters to Timothy, Titus and Philemon, pge 263. [Revised edition 1984]

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Fences

There is just enough room in the world for all the people in it, but there is no room for the fences that separate them.

Father Taylor of Boston, quoted by Rita Snowden.

Found in The Daily Study Bible: The Letters to Galatians and Ephesians, by William Barclay, pg 113. (Revised Edition 1976

"Father" Edward Thompson Taylor (1793-1871), the chaplain at Boston's Seamen's Bethel, inspired Herman Melville to create "Father Mapple" in Moby Dick.

Friday, January 01, 2010

Writing letters

William Barclay once wrote:
Letters are dangerous things. A man will often write with a bitterness and presumption which he would never use to another's face.

The same applies to emails...perhaps more so, since we're prone to sending them off quickly, without checking the way they're written. So, don't abuse, but speak the truth in love.