Quotes by Robert Hall

“Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error”

“He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move”

“Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation”

“In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.”

“A religion without its mysteries is a temple without a God”

“A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.”

“We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.”

“In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.”

“If an uninterested spectator, after a careful perusal of the New Testament, were asked what he conceived to be its distinguishing characteristic, he would reply without hesitation, That wonderful spirit of philanthropy by which it is distinguished. It is a perpetual commentary on that sublime aphorism, God is love.”

“We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.”

The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.

Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.