"Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only."

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Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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“No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.”
“Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.”
“I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.”
“There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have a frequency and the air, and then you have a timbre which really is overtones - and making those things work together is one thing. The other thing is mechanical: If you can use your hands and arms to create sound on a fiddle, then learning to sing with it is like adding a third body part. And it's all training.”
“I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.”
“In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.”
“When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt.”
“Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.”

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