Joseph Barber Lightfoot

“God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.”

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

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

“Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.”

“Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.”

“Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.”

“Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.”

“To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.”

“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.”

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

“So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.”

“God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.”

“God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.”

“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.”

“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.”

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