Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.
From Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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.
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
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.
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.
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.
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.
The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
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