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It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1828
Born: April 13
Died: 1889
Died: December 21
Priest
Theologian
University Teacher
City of Liverpool
J. B. Lightfoot
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Unknowable
Attempting
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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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Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
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God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.
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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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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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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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God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
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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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There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
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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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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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Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.
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God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
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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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