Robert Hall Quotes
An English Baptist minister.
(1764 - 1831)
|
|
|
|
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. He who has made the acquisition of a judicious and sympathizing friend, may be said to have doubled his mental resources.
[Friendship]
|
|
|
|
Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
[Drunkenness]
|
|
|
|
Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. - Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm, that of individuals. - The former grows inveterate by time; the latter is cured by it.
[Enthusiasm]
|
|
|
|
Eternity invests every state, whether of bliss or suffering, with a mysterious and awful importance entirely its own. - It gives weight and moment to whatever it attaches, compared to which all interests that know a period fade into absolute insignificance.
|
|
|
|
Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of this.
[Fanaticism]
|
|
|
|
He might have been a very clever man by nature, but he had laid so many books on his head that his brain could not move.
[Learning]
|
|
|
|
If ever Christianity appears in its power it is when it erects its trophies upon the tomb; when it takes up its votaries where the world leaves them; and fills the breast with immortal hope in dying moments.
[Christianity]
|
|
|
|
Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to prejudice, and perpetuity to error.
[Ignorance]
|
|
|
|
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
[Thought]
|
|
|
|
In matters of prudence last thoughts are best; in matters of morality, first thoughts.
[Morality]
|
|
|
|
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
|
|
|
|
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
|
|
|
|
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
|
|
|
|
Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling.
[Prayer]
|
|
|
|
Religion is the final centre of repose; the goal to which all things tend; apart from which man is a shadow, his very existence a riddle, and the stupendous scenes of nature which surround him as unmeaning as the leaves which the sibyl scattered in the wind.
[Religion]
|
|
|
|
Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.
|
|
|
|
Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or salubrious. The society of virtuous persons is enjoyed beyond their company, while vice carries a sting into solitude. The society or company you keep is both the indication of your character and the former of it. In vicious society you will feel your reverence for the dictates of conscience wear off, and that name at which angels bow and devils tremble, you will hear contemned and abused. The Bible will supply materials for unmeaning jest or impious buffooner; the consequence of this will be a practical deviation from virtue, the principles will become sapped, the fences of conscience broken down; and when debauchery has corrupted the character a total inversion will take place, and the sinner will glory in his shame.
[Vice]
|
|
|
|
Striking manners are bad manners.
[Manners]
|
|
|
|
Swearing is properly a superfluity of naughtiness, and can only be considered as a sort of pepper-corn sent, in acknowledgment of the devil's right of superiority.
[Profanity]
|
|
|
|
Talents of the highest order, and such as are calculated to command universal admiration, may exist apart from wisdom.
[Talent]
|
|
|
|
|