Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Theologian

1828-04-13

Books by 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.
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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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Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.
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This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
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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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The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
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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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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.
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