Inspirational Quotes by Joseph Hall

“There be three usual causes of ingratitude upon a benefit received - envy, pride, and covetousness; envy, looking more at other's benefits than our own; pride, looking more at ourselves than at the benefit; covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.”

“The practices of good men are more subject to error than their speculations. I will, then, honor good examples, but endeavor to live according to good precepts.”

“He that takes his cares on himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast my cares on God; he has bidden me; they cannot burden him.”

“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.”

“Infidelity and Faith look both through the same perspective-glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little, diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in the distance, lost their greatness.”

“He that taketh his own cares upon himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. I will cast all my cares on God; he hath bidden me; they cannot burden him.”

“It is no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.”

“Means without God cannot help. God without means can, and often doth. I will use good means, but not rest in them.”

“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.”

“An evil man is clay to God, and wax to the devil; a good man is God's wax, and Satan's clay.”

“Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial, but in matters of an indifferent nature, is safe and commendable.”

“There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.”

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

“Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.”

“Emulation, in the sense of a laudable amoition, is founded on humility, for it implies that we have a low opinion of our present, and think it necessary to advance and make improvement.”

“No devil is so dangerous as the religious devil.”

“Next to hypocrisy in religion, there is nothing worse than hypocrisy in friendship.”

“Never throw mud. You may miss your mark; but you must have dirty hands.”

“As in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.”

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