Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
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
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
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
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
God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
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
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
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
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
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
The Church in England is the Church of England.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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