Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all its enjoyments appeared vile. I had no more value for the favor of men than for pebbles. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English. — 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 good purpose. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
