All Joseph Hall Quotes
- 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… Any
- 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. Adversity
- Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask. 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… Affords
- 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… Affliction
- 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… Best
- 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… Account
- 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… All
- It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian. Choicest
- Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election. Arguing
- He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others. Better
- 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… Everlasting
- Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. Extreme
- Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings. Blessing
- Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself. Care
- He is great enough that is his own master. Great
- I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist Adventure
- For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck. Bad
- 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… All
- If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction. Affliction
- 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… Dangerously
- Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which… Doth
- Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees… Afar
- Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate. Ate
- 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… Affliction