God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
This is God’s work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God. – Joseph Barber Lightfoot
