All Joseph Hall Quotes
- 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
- ...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have. Covetousness
- God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well. Adverbs
- Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before… Alarm
- It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence. Impenitence
- A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself. Inspirational
- And, if I were so low that I accounted myself the worst of all, yet some would account themselves in worse case. Account
- Let me know myself; let others guess at me. Funny
- We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy. First Pray
- What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest! Besotted
- [W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes. All
- How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page. Creature
- It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the… Abundance
- For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest. Dish
- Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and… Adversity
- Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of… Both