My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
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 Image
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any… — 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
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun, but I never have been able to make out… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
O how much mercy have I received the year past! How often has God caused his goodness to pass before me! And… — 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
