Top 30 Quotes by 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.

But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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