May Quote by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

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

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There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift…

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To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

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

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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.

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

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

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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…

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