United Kingdom, Bishop July 1, 1574 – September, 8, 1656.
Joseph Hall was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way.
Also known as Satirist
Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.
The life of doctrine is in application.
It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
Perfection is the child of time…
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself.
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