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John Selden Quotes about Giving

All John Selden Quotes Giving quotes Pain Pleasure Prayer Preaching Religion Wit

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;

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.

Pain, Giving, Apricots

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

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

Thinking, Giving, World

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

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

Prayer, Giving, Reason Why

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

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