Joseph Hall Quotes
Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.
Citations
Hall, Joseph. Meditations and Vows Divine and Moral. 1606. The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., edited by Josiah Pratt, vol. 8, C. Whittingham, 1808, p. 61.
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Joseph Hall was an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and a high-profile controversialist of the early 1640s. In church politics, he tended in fact to a middle way.