John Selden Giving Quotations

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

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.

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