Author: Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Quotes

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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.

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.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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