Joseph Hall > Quotes

“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

“The proud man hath no God; the envious
man hath no neighbor; the angry man
hath not himself.”
― Joseph Hall

“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 prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed. ”
― Joseph Hall

“Where the father of the family brings sin home to the house, it is not easily swept out.”
― Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

“Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.”
― Joseph Hall

“The homeliest service that we do in an honest calling, though it be but to plough or dig, if done in obedience and conscience of God’s commandment, is crowned with an ample reward; whereas the best works for their kind, preaching, praying, offering evangelical sacrifices, if without respect of God’s injunction and glory, are loaded with curses.

God loveth adverbs; and careth not how good, but how well.”
― Joseph Hall, Holy obseruations. Lib. 1. Also some fewe of Dauids Psalmes metaphrased, for a taste of the rest. By Ios. Hall

“Happy is the man, that by an unfeigned repentance, acquits his soul from his known evils, and improves the days of his peace to the prevention of future vengeance, which if it be not done, the hand of God shall as surely overtake us in judgment, as the hand of Satan hath overtaken us in miscarriage unto sin.”
― Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments