Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

There 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 Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Yes, 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 Lightfoot

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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 Lightfoot

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

- 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

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

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

- 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

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

We 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 Lightfoot

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The Church in England is the Church of England.

- 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

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

- Joseph Barber Lightfoot