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

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

- 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

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

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot