Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes


"This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: God, Work)

"This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: Wisdom, Fear, Beginning, Consciousness, Heaven, Sin)

"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
(Related: God, Consequences, Terror, Tomorrow, Will)

"There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: Life, Heart)

"Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: May)

"To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: People, Righteousness, Teaching)

"If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: God, Men, Man)

"The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: Work, Majority)

"The success and the failure are not my concern, but His."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: Success, Failure, Concern)

"The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: Future, Struggle)

"The Church in England is the Church of England."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: Church, England)

"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
"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
(Related: Change, Desire, Opinions)

"Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: Acceptance)

"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
(Related: God, Work, Danger, Error, Self)

"I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: Success, Failure, Will)

"God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: God, First)

"God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: God, Brothers, Christ, Help, Sisters, Will)

"God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: God, Despair, Spirit)

"God did not give you the spirit of cowardice."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: God, Cowardice, Spirit)

"It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: Energy)

"So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: Thought, Control, Results)

"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
(Related: Words)

"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
(Related: Help, Will)

"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
(Related: Success, Failure, Children, Eternity)

"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
(Related: Strength, Egotism, Forget, May, Self, Selfishness, Weakness)

"Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: God, Work, Beginning, End)

"You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
(Related: God, Will)

"Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee."
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot