"Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. 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."

-- John Selden

#Men Quotes #Roots Quotes #Tree Quotes

“You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.”
“If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.”
“Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a world the way a religious person lives in the world; I keep living in a world that I know to be enchanted, and not left alone. I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.”

Source : Lauren F. Winner (2012). “Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis”, p.9, Harper Collins
“The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.”
“Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It's a modern Republican thing.”

Source : "Trillion Dollar Fraudsters". www.nytimes.com. March 20, 2015.
“Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.”

Source : John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.218
“Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.”
“Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.”

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