A Quote by Joseph Hall

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

Joseph Hall

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Joseph Hall
English - Priest
July 1, 1574 - September 8, 1656

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Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.

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Bryant H. McGill

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Stephen Jay Gould

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The most fruitful and the most joy-filled Christians are the most pruned Christians.

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Arthur Phillips

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