Top 30 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.