Quotes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
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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.
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You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
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The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
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The Church in England is the Church of England.
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So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
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