John Selden Quotes about Pain

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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;

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.

John Selden

Pain, Giving, Apricots

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

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

John Selden

Pain, Pleasure, Intermission

'Table Talk' (1689) 'Pleasure'

I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: "It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest.

John Selden

Jesus, Pain, Taken