"Not only must the message be correctly delivered,……" — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
"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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31 Quotes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Joseph Barber Lightfoot has 31 quotes on this site.
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God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
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We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and…
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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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Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is…
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But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your…
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God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
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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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I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
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If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.
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There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you…
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This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to…
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Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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