Top 30 Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes
#1. Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#2. This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#4. Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
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#6. To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.
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#7. So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.
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#10. So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
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#12. 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.
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#13. There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
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#15. Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
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#17. The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
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#18. Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
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#19. The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
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#20. God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
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#21. But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.
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#22. Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
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#23. It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
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#25. 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.
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#27. This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
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#28. There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.
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#29. If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#30. 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.
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