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Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Inspirational
#Life
#Grandchildren
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Self
#Dwelling
#Weakness
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Inspirational
#Inspiring
#Leadership
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Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Triumph
#Eternal Love
#Righteousness
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I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Discouraged
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Acceptance
#Messengers
#Messages
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Majority
#Soil
#Bread
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Helping Others
#Trying
#Weakness
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Long
#Passed Away
#Contracts
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Teaching
#People
#Righteousness
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The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Struggle
#Dark
#Veils
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#May
#Teach
#Thyself
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God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Despair
#Spirit
#Unfaithful
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Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Ends
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Heaven
#Pathways
#Consciousness
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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 which God offers you tomorrow.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Odds
#Shrinking
#Tomorrow
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Men
#Sufficiency
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Brother
#Helping
#Christ
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God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Giving
#Spirit
#Cowardice
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Mean
#Errors
#Self
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Reflection
#Energy
#Strange
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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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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Success
#Children
#Congratulations
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God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Links
#Lasts
#Firsts
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The Church in England is the Church of England.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#Church
#England
