Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

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• God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
• 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…
• It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
• 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…
• 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…
• God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
• God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
• I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
• If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
• 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…
• This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
• Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
• The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
• 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…
• Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
• To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.
• The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
• Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.
• God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
• The Church in England is the Church of England.

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