Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.

We have to choose faith even if we don't feel it. Or hold on to a friend who has faith.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

My joy in life is not because I have not had any problems. I have joy because I have learned there is nothing too great for God's power to deal with, nor anything too small or insignificant for His love to be concerned about.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

My speed is a gift from God, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, it all comes from him.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

We should know that faith is a gift of God, and that it may not be given to men, except it be graciously. Thus, indeed, all the good which we have is of God; and accordingly, when God rewardeth a good work of man, he crowneth his own gift.

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.

...I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the prophet, the scrupulous regard for his pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and his own mission. These, and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every trouble

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.

I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God. I submit myself to His direct will, which is good and perfect with no evil in it.

Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without fear, love their neighbor even when they are cursed by him, and live without regret over yesterday or fear of tomorrow.

I'm a baseball player who likes to enjoy himself and leave everything to God. He knows what'll happen.

I have to give all praise to the Man above, because I never gave up on Him, and He never gave up on me.

To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.