Top 30 Quotes by 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.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

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

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.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

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.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

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

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.