English - Theologian | April 13, 1828 - December 21, 1889
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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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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It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
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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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So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.
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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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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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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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The Church in England is the Church of England.
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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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You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.
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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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