Joseph Hall Quotes

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

Now, whether my not asking for good things to happen to me is subconsciously intended to win me brownie points with God is something I can't answer. But I do feel the need to give thanks and also not to feel hypocritical by asking for things when I have doubts that God would answer me.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.