John Hall: Living

John Hall was Presbyterian pastor from Northern Ireland in New York, died 1898. Explore interesting quotes on living.
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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

“We must keep up the standard of Christian living in the Christian laborer. Clean hands are needed to do Christian work. Character is before co-operation, being before doing. "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine."”

John Hall

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 316.

“To get, then, the mind of Christ,'and to declare it, is the primary end of the teaching offices of the church. The living body of sympathetic men, saturated with the truth and feeling of the Book, must bring it into contact with other men, through that marvelous organ the human voice, and with such aid as comes from the subtle sympathy that pervades assemblies of human beings.”

John Hall

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 478.

Men , Truth , Books , Feeling

“As preachers we are to promote Christian culture, by bringing the dead branches to the living Vine, that, grafted into it, without a rag of hum1. n righteousness between, the life of Him may enter them; and by keeping them, as far as teaching and example can do it, abiding in Him, that they may bring forth fruit.”

John Hall

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

Life , Dead

“A strong church is made up of well-ordered families, where intelligent, Christian parents bring up their children in the fear of the Lord, where the home of the week has its counterpart in the home of the Sabbath, where the hopes and joys of the living, and the blessed memories of the dead bind to the Lord and His church, where young men and maidens are glad when it is said to them, " Let us go unto the house of the Lord," where the tranquillity, and purity, and holy peace, the light and the love, form to the opening minds of the children a type and prophecy of the eternal Sabbath and the heaven above.”

John Hall

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 144.

Love , Men , Children , Fear