Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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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These are some quotes by English author Joseph Barber Lightfoot Theologian, who lived between April 13, 1828 and December 21, 1889.

Quotes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

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

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