Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Profession : Theologian

Birth : April 13, 1828

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

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

The Church in England is the Church of England.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

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