Good prayers never come weeping home. I am sure I shall receive, either what I ask or what I should ask. Joseph Hall
Author: Joseph Hall
Evaluating our faith: How shall I depend on Him for raising my body from the dust; and saving my soul at last; if I distrust Him for a crust of bread, towards my preservation. Joseph Hall
JOSEPH I marvel not that Joseph had the double portion of Jacob’s land, who had more than two parts of his sorrows. None of his sons did so truly inherit his afflictions; none of them was either so miserable or so great: suffering is the way to glory. I see in him not a clearer …
MARTHA AND MARY We may read long enough ere we find Christ in a house of His own. “The foxes have holes, and the birds have nests :” He that had all, possessed nothing. One while I see Him in a publican’s house, then in a Pharisee’s; now I find Him at Martha’s. His last …
THE THANKFUL PENITENT Once I find Christ invited by a publican, now by a Pharisee. Wherever He went. He made better cheer than He found, in a happy exchange of spiritual repast for bodily. Who knows not the Pharisees to have been the proud enemies of Christ; men over-conceited of themselves, contemptuous of others, severe …