Quotes from Joseph Barber Lightfoot


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God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.


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.


Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.


Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.


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.


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


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.


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


To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.


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


The Church in England is the Church of England.


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


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


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


God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.


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.


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.


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.


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


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