Quotes from Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
— 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
The Church in England is the Church of England.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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.
— 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
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
Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot