Joseph Hall Quotes

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• Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than…
• Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
• Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.
• Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when…
• No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour…
• Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and…
• I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break…
• Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or…
• It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.
• Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.
• He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
• 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…
• Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.
• Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.
• Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
• He is great enough that is his own master.
• I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist
• For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.
• 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…
• If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

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