Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Joseph Barber Lightfootwas an English theologian and Bishop of Durham...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth13 April 1828
helping-others trying weakness
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.
change desire equally
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.
commission received
You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
rebuke whom
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.
therefore
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
men sufficiency ifs
If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
mean self errors
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.
reflection energy strange
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
odds shrinking tomorrow
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.
heaven pathways sin
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
success children congratulations
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.
bread majority soil
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
long passed-away contracts
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.