Joseph Hall Quotes

• La moderación es el hilo de seda que atraviesa la cadena de perlas de todas las virtudes.

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

  Joseph Hall

  Soul, Sin

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• For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.

  Joseph Hall

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Might

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• Cada día es una pequeña vida, y toda nuestra vida no es más que un día repetido. Por tanto, vive cada día como si fuera el último. Los que se atreven a perder un día, son peligrosamente pródigos; los que se atreven a malgastarlo, son desesperados.

  Joseph Hall

  Littles, Lasts, Would Be

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• Una vez rota, una reputación puede repararse, pero el mundo siempre tendrá los ojos puestos en el lugar donde estaba la grieta.

  Joseph Hall

  Positive, Eye, Character

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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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• Try to be of some use to others.

  Joseph Hall

  Trying, Use, Benevolence

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Pocas veces se dio un conocimiento para guardarlo, sino para impartirlo; la gracia de esta rica joya se pierde en la ocultación.

  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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• Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

  Joseph Hall

  Passion, People, Fool

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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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• Satanás parecería ser amanerado y razonable; como si se contentara con la mitad del corazón, mientras que Dios lo reclama todo o nada: como, en verdad, tiene más razón para reclamar todo lo que hizo todo. Pero esto no es más que una astuta treta de Satanás; porque sabe que si él tiene alguna parte, Dios no tendrá ninguna: así que el todo recae sólo en su parte.

  Joseph Hall

  Prayer, Heart, Temptation

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.226

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• How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

  Joseph Hall

  Environmental, World, Letters

  Joseph Hall (1808). “The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall: Now First Collected. With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings, Written by Himself”, p.204

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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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• Un buen hombre es más amable con su enemigo que los malos con sus amigos.

  Joseph Hall

  Hombres, Buen Hombre, Enemigo

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• La muerte bordea nuestro nacimiento, y nuestra cuna está en la tumba.

  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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• Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

  Joseph Hall

  Evil, Used, Worst

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.85

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• Las buenas oraciones nunca llegan arrastrándose a casa. Estoy seguro de que recibiré lo que pido o lo que debería pedir.

  Joseph Hall

  Prayer, Home, Should

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• Perfection is the child of time.

  Joseph Hall

  Time, Children, Perfection

  'Works' (1625) p. 670

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