Ordination addresses and counsels to cl...
A source page for quotes linked to Joseph Barber Lightfoot.
“The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.”
“Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.”
“God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.”
“It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.”
“I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.”
“If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.”
“Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.”
“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.”
“The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.”
“God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.”