Quotes by Joseph Franklin Rutherford

About Joseph Franklin Rutherford:

Joseph Franklin Rutherford was the second president of the incorporated Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. He played a primary role in the organization and doctrinal development of Jehovah's Witnesses, which emerged from the Bible Student movement established by Charles Taze Russell.
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By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The earth is yet the place of the domicile of man and all the offspring of the first man.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Author Bio

  • NameJoseph Franklin Rutherford
  • DescriptionAmerican judge
  • BornNovember 8, 1869
  • DiedJanuary 8, 1942
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLawyer; Judge