joseph-hall Quotes About men

“The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.”

Men Evil Devil Ease Laziness Idle Cushions

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

“How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.”

Men Hands Easy Loses Security Glory Sight Rose Admiration Swollen

Author:Joseph Hall

“As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.”

Ifs Men May Running Lasts Desire Grows Cutting Weak Let Me Painful Generous Stem Affliction Vines Superfluous

Author:Joseph Hall

“We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.”

Knows Men Joy Rich Delight Envy Miserable Great Men Inward Mistaken

Author:Joseph Hall

“If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.”

Ifs Men World Might Intention Judged Idolatry

Author:Joseph Hall

“The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.”

Men Running Grows Weed Negligence

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.”

Men Names Subjects Broken Glasses Reputation Nails Torn Garments Cracked Reproach Tainted

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

“Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous. The first soul that met with death, overcame death; the first soul that parted from earth went to heaven. Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.”

Men Firsts Soul Earth Death Dies Heaven Mets Strikes Arguing Innocent God Love Adam Righteous Murderer Hypocrite Cain Displeasure Abel

Book:Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings

Source: Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings

“A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.”

Men Enemy Goodness Good Man Kinder Bad Man

Author:Joseph Hall

“God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.”

Thinking Knows Men Happiness Cutting Fit Holy Please Creatures Delight Thanks Miserable God Love True God Holy Man

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

“This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.”

Ifs Men Way Should Ends Easy Loses Walks Fields My Way My Time Quotations Pilgrimage

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works

“Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.”

Ifs Men Hate Sin Guilty

Book:Works: Devotional works

Source: Works: Devotional works

“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.”

Men Christian Together Evil Society Accounts Sticks Melancholy Solitary Fellowship Doing Good Kindles Bundles Provocation Solitary Man

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

“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.”

Men Looks Ends Reason Done Action Wise Events Judging Fool Let Me Former Fool Me

Author:Joseph Hall

“The idle man is the devil's cushion.”

Men Devil Laziness Idle Cushions

Book:Works: Devotional works

Source: Works: Devotional works

“The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.”

Knows Men Ends Hurt Fields Creatures Conscience Stones League Satan Affliction Godly Loving God Godliness Godly Man

Author:Joseph Hall

“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 they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die”

Men Want Enough Dies Enjoy Enemy Drink Ambition Rats Torment Bane Discontentment

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“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 to whip him. The world afflicts him not, because it loves him: for each man is indulgent to his own. God uses not the rod where He means to use the Word. The pillory or scourge is for those malefactors that shall escape execution.”

Ifs Men World Mean Use Christian Born Blessing Gods Will Christian Life Execution Affliction Favour Whips Scourge Chastisement

Book:Select Tracts from the writings of ... J. H. ... Edited by C. Bradley

Source: Select Tracts from the writings of ... J. H. ... Edited by C. Bradley

“He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.”

Thinking Men Humble Be Humble Humble Man

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

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

Men Proud Anger Angry Neighbor Envious Proud Man Angry Man

Book:Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

Source: Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments

“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 are so.”

Men Shows Passion Fool Extremes

Author:Joseph Hall

“A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.”

Men Opinion

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works

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