Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#gave #god #spirit #you

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#brothers #christ #god #help #helping

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

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#chain #first #god #last #link

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

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#god #man #men #nor #sufficiency

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

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#away #energy #how #know #much

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

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#correctly #delivered #himself #message #messenger

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

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#cannot #control #put #relentlessly #results

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. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#i #much #myself #rebuke #seem

The Church in England is the Church of England. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#england

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#future #hidden #impenetrable #pierce #struggle