Lord Quotes by David Brainerd

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

— David Brainerd

Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

— David Brainerd

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

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

“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

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

— David Brainerd

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

— David Brainerd

“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

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

— David Brainerd