Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

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

Inspirational, Made, Before

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.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Strength, Forget, Self

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

Love, Truth, Triumph

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

Life, Heart, Single

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.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Yourself, Help, Try

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Success, Failure, Elated

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God, Give, Spirit

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

Future, Struggle, Through

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

May, Teach, Strengthen

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.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Change, Forward, Put

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.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Work, God, Mean

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God, Spirit, Despair

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

God, Help, Christ

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

God, Last, Chain

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

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

Strange, Energy, Away

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

Acceptance, Himself, Message

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

Control, Thought, Cannot

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.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Speak, Seem, Warning

The Church in England is the Church of England.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Church, England

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

Success, Failure, Concern

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

Work, Majority, Bread

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.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

God, Tomorrow, Accept

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

Fear, Wisdom, Beginning

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Work, God, Place

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Theologian

Born: April 13, 1828

Died: December 21, 1889

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