Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

• God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

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• God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

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• 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.

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• God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

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

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

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

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

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

   

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• The Church in England is the Church of England.

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• 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.

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• We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• This is God’s work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

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• 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.

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• Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

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Joseph Barber Lightfoot (29)

Birth:	13th April, 1828
Death:	21st December, 1889
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Bishop, Theologian

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