John Hall: Greatness

John Hall was Presbyterian pastor from Northern Ireland in New York, died 1898. Explore interesting quotes on greatness.
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“The minister is to be a live man, a real man, a true man, a simple man, great in his love, great in his life, great in his work, great in his simplicity, great in his gentleness.”

John Hall

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 411.

Love , Life

“Culture is good, genius is brilliant, civ1lization is a blessing, education is a great pr1vilege; but we may be educated villains.. The thing that we want most of ail is the precious gift of the Holy Ghost.”

John Hall

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 320.

Education

“The minister, who would be most like the Master, must go and, like Him, lay the warm, kindly hand on the leper, the diseased, the wretched. He must touch the blind eyes with something from himself. The tears must be in his own eyes over the dead who are to be raised to spiritual life. Jesus is our great exemplar.”

John Hall

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 413.

Life , Disease , Tear , Dead

“When the captain throws out his sheet-anchor, and the ship "rides at anchor," as it is called, there is a great strain on every link of that chain; and if one bad link breaks, off goes the anchor, and the ship is driven before the winds, and may be destroyed. Now, our character is very much like the chain; one bad piece vitiates and spoils it. So we must have a pure character.”

John Hall

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 44.

“A leading Welsh minister — and Welsh ministers are, I think, among the best preachers — was invited to preach an anniversary sermon before one of the great societies in London. Naturally anxious to disregard no propriety, he consulted the proper authority, the secretary. "Should I read my sermon?" "Oh, it is no matter, only bring some of your Welsh fire with you." " But you cannot, my dear sir, carry fire on paper."”

John Hall

"No, that is true; but you may use the paper to kindle the fire."
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 483.

Nature , Thinking , Reading