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This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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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.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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#Us
So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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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.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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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.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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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.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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#Try
#Yourself
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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#Only
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God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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#You
I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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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
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#Myself
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God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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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
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#Strength
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God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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#Love
#Only
#Righteousness
#Truth
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
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#Own
#Path
#Place
#Work
Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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