Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

William Barclay
Some Similar Quotes
  1. This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love. - Margaret Atwood

  2. I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry. I cried because you wouldn't let me speak. I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine. I shone because I thought you loved me... - Emilie Autumn

  3. Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words. - Roy T. Bennett

  4. Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt. - Toba Beta

  5. Speak out off turn and you will surely be put back in line. - Anthony T.Hincks

More Quotes By William Barclay
  1. Jesus promised his disciples three things–that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

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