Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

• Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Inspirational, Life, Grandchildren

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• 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

  Self, Dwelling, House

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Triumph, Eternal Love, Righteousness

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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.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Acceptance, Messengers, Messages

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Discouraged

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Ends

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Sister, Brother, Helping

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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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.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Heaven, Pathways, Consciousness

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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.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Success, Children, Congratulations

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

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Reflection, Energy, Strange

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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• The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Success, Concern

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Giving, Spirit, Cowardice

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• 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, Take Me

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Ties, Lasts, Firsts

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Teaching, People, Righteousness

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Men, Sufficiency, Apostles

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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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.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Helping Others, Inspire, Trying

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Majority, Soil, Bread

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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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.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Mean, Errors, Self

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Struggle, Dark, Veils

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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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.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Odds, Shrinking, Tomorrow

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

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Despair, Spirit, Unfaithful

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• The Church in England is the Church of England.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Church, England, Church Of England

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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.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Long, Passed Away, Contracts

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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