Joseph Hall Quotes

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• Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

  Joseph Hall

  Life, Running, Ties

  "The Holy State and the Profane State". Book by Thomas Fuller, Book III, 1642.

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• Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.

  Joseph Hall

  Wise, Men, Judging

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• Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.

  Joseph Hall

  Littles, Lasts, Would Be

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• Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.

  Joseph Hall

  Long, Envy, Care

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.296

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• Try to be of some use to others.

  Joseph Hall

  Trying, Use, Benevolence

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• The proud man hath no God; the envious
  man hath no neighbor; the angry man
  hath not himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Anger, Men, Angry Man

  Joseph Hall (1860). “Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments”, p.18

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• If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Rain, Shining

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.120

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• It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

  Joseph Hall

  Soul, Sin

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• Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

  Joseph Hall

  Taken, Blessing, Used

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.73

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• Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

  Joseph Hall

  Teacher, Appreciation, Knowledge

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall DD Successively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.82

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• Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Men, Evil

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.21

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• It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.

  Joseph Hall

  Sweet, Flower, Drawing

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• Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

  Joseph Hall

  Let Me, Knows

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.75

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• What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

  Joseph Hall

  Thank You, Memories, Silence

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.11

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• We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

  Joseph Hall

  Wise, Wish, Firsts

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.65

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• The life of doctrine is in application.

  Joseph Hall

  Doctrine, Application

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Some specialities in the life of Bishop Hall. Letter from the Tower. Bishop Hall's Hard measure. Contemplations on the Old Testament”, p.381

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• I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.

  Joseph Hall

  Long, Together, Shadow

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.231

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• The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.

  Joseph Hall

  Running, Weed, Men

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.108

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• A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

  Joseph Hall

  Positive, Eye, Character

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• Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Dying, Borders

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.175

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• Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Hypocrite, Men

  Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.113

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• Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

  Joseph Hall

  Giving, Shows, Dies

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• How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Sight, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 532, 1895.

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• Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

  Joseph Hall

  Prayer, Home, Should

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• There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.

  Joseph Hall

  Hurt, Hands, Temptation

  Joseph Hall (1867). “Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author”, p.396

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