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God Quotes by David Brainerd
- I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.
- The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan…
- We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with…
- The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of…
- Once more, never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for…
- Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own…
- 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…
- Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
- The Lord help me to press after God forever
- 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.
- 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…
- Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!
- If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
- 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.…
- I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am…
- We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
- I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.
- It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way...…
- Oh, how much mercy have I received the year past! How often has God caused His goodness to pass before me! And how poorly have…
- I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
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- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe