There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Thirsting desires and longings possessed my soul after perfect holiness. God was so precious to my soul that the world with all… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I… — 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
Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
“There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul. .… — 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… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to… — 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… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool… — 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
