If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. — 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… — 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… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for… — 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
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
All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life… — 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
It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy… — 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
I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in… — 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
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
Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world. — 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
