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

The Church in England is the Church of England.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

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

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.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot