Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
In the morning was again distressed as soon as I waked, hearing much talk about the world and the things of it.… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. — David Brainerd Copy Share
I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I… — David Brainerd Copy Share
I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in… — David Brainerd Copy Share
“Friday, April 2. In the afternoon I felt, in secret prayer, much resigned, calm, and serene. What are all the storms of this lower… — David Brainerd Copy Share
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose. — David Brainerd Copy Share
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed… — David Brainerd Copy Share
In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my… — David Brainerd Copy Share
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and… — David Brainerd Copy Share
God designs that those whom He sanctifies...shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how… — David Brainerd Copy Share
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God;… — David Brainerd Copy Share
I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God. — David Brainerd Copy Share
“There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul. . .How blessed… — David Brainerd Copy Share
First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety. — David Brainerd Copy Share
