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

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

- 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

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

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

- 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

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

- 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

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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