John Selden - Reason Quotes

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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.

John Selden

Gentlemen have ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.

John Selden

First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet more are taken with rhetoric than logic, because they are caught with fine expressions when they understand not reason.

John Selden

Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.

John Selden

The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.

John Selden