Quotes from Joseph Barber Lightfoot
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The Church in England is the Church of England.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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 did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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
To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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
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