#ch

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#air force #any #assignment #avoid #being

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

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#i #may #me #only #purify

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

#been #change #desire #equally #forward

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#chain #first #god #last #link

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#away #energy #how #know #much

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. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#i #much #myself #rebuke #seem

The Church in England is the Church of England. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#england

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. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#back #calculation #consequences #frankly #gift

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. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#did #eternity #failure #realise #success

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#away #clings #condition #contract #long