John Selden Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

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

  John Selden

  Prayer, Giving, Reason Why

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

• 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

• 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.

  John Selden

  Fall, Cutting, Thinking

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

  John Selden

  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 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.

  John Selden

  Prayer, Boys, Clothes

• 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.

  John Selden

  Bible, Book, Men

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

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