Joseph Hall Quotes

When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

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.

There is no man who will not be grieved at the time of his chastisement; and there is not man who will not endure a bitter time, when he must drink the poison of temptations. Without them, it is not possible to obtain a strong will. When he has often experienced the help of God in temptations, a man also obtains strong faith.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution, and affliction, yet I wish to say to my brethren and sisters that these things are the heritage of the Saints of God. … I have never read of the people of God in any dispensation passing through life, as the sectarian world would say, on flowery beds of ease, without opposition of any kind.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.

We should be reminding ourselves that no matter how many problems may be facing us, the One Who is with us is greater than all those who oppose us.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

It's true, I suffer a great deal-but do I suffer well? That is the question.