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 LightfootNot only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
Joseph Barber LightfootWords contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
Joseph Barber LightfootAbsolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
Joseph Barber LightfootTo make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.
Joseph Barber LightfootThere is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
Joseph Barber LightfootIf you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
Joseph Barber LightfootEternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
Joseph Barber LightfootThere 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 LightfootYes, 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 LightfootWe 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 LightfootThe tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
Joseph Barber LightfootThis fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
Joseph Barber LightfootGod helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
Joseph Barber LightfootIt is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
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