Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

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

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 is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

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

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

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.

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

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

The Church in England is the Church of England.

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.