List of Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

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

The Church In England Is The Church Of England.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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