John Selden Quotes About Giving

• Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.

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  John Selden (1716). “Table-talk: the discourses of J. Selden [ed. by R. Milward.].”, p.79

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• You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's - not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you - not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity - not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul - a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the Saviour's book and the sinner's.

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  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 29), 1895.

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• Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

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  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.140

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• In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.

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• Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that; He knows best wheat is good for us. If your boy should ask you for a suit of clothes and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he; let him ask for a suit of clothes.

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• All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

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  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.44

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