Joseph Barber Lightfoot's Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Church in England is the Church of England.

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