Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

There are people who wonder if faith is real. I can tell you, in my family there is not a second of doubt.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.

Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

No matter what we face, put your total faith in God, and in time - not our time, but His time - He'll bring us through.

When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God's promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in moving mountains - if moving mountains accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will.

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

If the Lord comes and burns - as you say he will - I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.

My faith is sort of where I got my confidence. And it was the confidence of, 'It's going to be what it's going to be.'

This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.