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" Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also. "
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Beginning
Your
End
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" Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee. "
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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. "
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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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Reflect
" 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. "
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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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Own
Work
Majority
" I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success. "
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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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Beginning
Wisdom
" Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure. "
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Endure
Truth
" 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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Long
Contract
Away
" Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only. "
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Me
May
Take
" This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency. "
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Place
Work
God
" 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
Yes
Strength
Weakness
" So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them. "
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Results
Control
Thought
" The Church in England is the Church of England. "
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
England
Church
" 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
Opinions
Hand
Forward
" 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
Yourself
Doing
Help
" To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching. "
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Righteousness
Your
Understand
" 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
Own
God
Mean
" You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God. "
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Will
God
Bear
" There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life. "
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Life
Transparency
Heart
" God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters. "
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Christ
Me
Help
" If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God. "
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Your
Man
God
" The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it. "
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Struggle
Through
Dark
" Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance. "
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Only
Acceptance
Message