Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.”

“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.”

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

“Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.”

“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.”