30 Quotes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

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

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

The Church in England is the Church of England.

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

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

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

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.