Quotes by Joseph Hall

Joseph Hall (1574–1656) — Bischof · Anglikanisch · England

Joseph Hall (1574–1656) war ein englischer Schriftsteller, Geistlicher und Bischof von Exeter sowie Norwich. Er verband reformierte Frömmigkeit mit der Verteidigung der anglikanischen Kirchenordnung und erlangte als moralistischer Essayist den Beinamen „englischer Seneca“. Für Bibelleser sind vor allem seine Betrachtungen der biblischen Geschichte von Bedeutung, die theologische Tiefe mit praktischer Lebensweisheit verbinden.

Era: Reformation & Baroque

Recurring topics: Freedom & Truth, Wisdom & Understanding, Money & Possessions, Service & Love of Neighbour, Time & Transience, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Hope & Confidence, Grace & Redemption

Quotes by Joseph Hall

Happy is that man, that can be acquitted by himself in private, by others in public, and by God in both.

Joseph Hall

Christianity teacheth me that what I charitably give alive, I carry with me dead; and experience teacheth me that what I leave behind, I lose. I will carry that treasure with me by giving it, which the worldling loseth by keeping it; so, while his corpse shall carry nothing but a winding cloth to his grave, I shall be richer under the earth than I was above it.

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

Motion is the most perfect discoverer of life. He that can stir his limbs, is surely not dead. The feet of the soul are the affections. Hast thou not found in thyself a hate and detestation of that sin whereinto thou hast been miscarried? Hast thou not found in thyself a true grief of heart, for thy wretched indisposition to all good things? Without a true life of grace, these things could never have been.

Joseph Hall

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