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Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (13 April 1828 – 21 December 1889), also known as J. B. Lightfoot, was an English theologian and Bishop of Durham.

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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.

Consciousness, Heaven, Lord, Pathways, Straight, Wisdom

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

Condition, Contract, Contracts, Long, Passed Away, Things

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

Discouraged, Elated, Failure, Success

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

Chain, God, Lasts, Link, Links, Ties

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

Brother, Help, Helping, Sister, Sisters

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.

Accept, Back, Odds, Possible, Shrinking, Tomorrow

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

May, Strengthen, Take Me, Teach, Thyself

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.

Effectually, Help, Helping Others, Inspire, Trying, Weaknesses

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.

Children, Congratulations, Failure, Success

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

Bread, Majority, Soil, Tillage

The Church in England is the Church of England.

Church, Church Of England, England

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

Concern, Failure, Success

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

Acceptance, Correctly, Messages, Messengers, Recommend

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

Dark, Future, Impenetrable, Struggle, Veils

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

Grandchildren, Inspirational, Life, Plant, Thee, Thy

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

Cowardice, Giving, God, Spirit

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

Eternal Love, Love, Righteousness, Triumph, Truth