Quotes from Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness and remember your strength.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
- 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.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot