Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

English - Theologian | April 13, 1828 - December 21, 1889

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

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

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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 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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Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

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The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

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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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I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

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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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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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