Words matter. These are the best Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.
To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.
But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.
This is God’s work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
The Church in England is the Church of England.
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.