God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Brotherhood Copy Share Image
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot May Copy Share Image
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Attempting Copy Share Image
There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Education Copy Share Image
There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Accepting Copy Share Image
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Bread Copy Share Image
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 Language Copy Share Image
Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Birth Copy Share Image
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Consciousness Copy Share Image
Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Acceptance Copy Share Image
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Away Copy Share Image
But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Danger Copy Share Image
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Inspirational Copy Share Image
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Despair Copy Share Image
Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Dwelling Copy Share Image
God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot God Copy Share Image
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Apostles Copy Share Image
We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Children Copy Share Image
Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Help others Copy Share Image
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Endure Copy Share Image
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Heart Copy Share Image
But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Change Copy Share Image
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Dark Copy Share Image
So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Much Copy Share Image