"The tillage of the soil occupies the vast……" — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
"The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread."
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31 Quotes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Joseph Barber Lightfoot has 31 quotes on this site.
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God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and…
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It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
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Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is…
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But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your…
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God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
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God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
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I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
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If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
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There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you…
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This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to…
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Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
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More Bread Quotes
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
— Paul Auster
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
— Tyra Banks
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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