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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
Long
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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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" It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. "
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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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" Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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 in place of God. "
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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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" I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success. "
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" This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency. "
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" There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life. "
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" So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them. "
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Control
Thought
" You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God. "
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God
Bear
" God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters. "
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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. "
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Hand
Forward
" 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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" If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God. "
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" Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only. "
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May
Take
" The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it. "
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Struggle
Through
Dark