Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes: A Curated Collection of the Best Inspirational, Motivational, and Thought-Provoking Sayings Written by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Total Quotes 25

Words Contract A Significance Which Clings To Them Long After The Condition Of Things To Which They Owe It Has Passed Away.

Long

Passed Away

Contracts

The Church In England Is The Church Of England.

Church

England

Church Of England

God Gave You Not A Spirit Of Faithlessness, Not A Spirit Of Despair.

Despair

Spirit

Unfaithful

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.

Odds

Shrinking

Tomorrow

The Future Is Hidden By A Dark Impenetrable Veil, And Yet We Struggle To Pierce Through It.

Struggle

Dark

Veils

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.

Mean

Errors

Self

The Tillage Of The Soil Occupies The Vast Majority Of Those Who Work For Their Own Bread.

Majority

Soil

Bread

It Is Strange To Reflect How Much Energy Is Thrown Away In Attempting To Know The Unknowable.

Reflection

Energy

Strange

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.

Helping Others

Inspire

Trying

If You Are Apostles At All, You Are Apostles, Not Of Men, Nor By Man. Your Sufficiency Is Of God.

Men

Sufficiency

Apostles

To Make Your People Understand What Righteousness Is, This Must Be The Basis Of All Your Teaching.

Teaching

People

Righteousness

Absolve Me, Teach Me, Purify Me, Strengthen Me: Take Me To Thyself, That I May Be Thine And Thine Only.

May

Teach

Take Me

About Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Born: April 13, 1828

Died: December 21, 1889