John Hall: Quotes about the dead

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

John Hall: 40 quotes1 like

“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.”

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

“Direct your arrows at objects without being personal; come near your hearers. Letters dropped into the post-office without address go to the dead-letter office, and are of no use to any body.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 479.

“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.”

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

“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.”

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