God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also. Joseph Barber Lightfoot More Quotes by Joseph Barber Lightfoot More Quotes From Joseph Barber Lightfoot This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven. Joseph Barber Lightfoot pathways consciousness heaven 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. Joseph Barber Lightfoot shrinking tomorrow odds 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. Joseph Barber Lightfoot errors self mean If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God. Joseph Barber Lightfoot apostles sufficiency men This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency. Joseph Barber Lightfoot must place god work You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God. Joseph Barber Lightfoot bear will you god 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. Joseph Barber Lightfoot opinions forward change desire 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. Joseph Barber Lightfoot myself you speak warning So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them. Joseph Barber Lightfoot control thought you results
