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Christianity Quotes by David Brainerd
- Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every…
- I love to live on the brink of eternity.
- In the morning was again distressed as soon as I waked, hearing much talk about the world and the things of it. I perceived the…
- Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
- Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none
- The Lord help me to press after God forever
- I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting…
- Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.
- I hoped that my weary pilgrimage in the world would be short; and that it would not be long before I should be brought to…
- I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc
- Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly…
- I think my soul never was in such an agony before. I felt no restraint, for the treasures of divine grace were opened to me.…
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