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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. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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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. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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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. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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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. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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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. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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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. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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