"I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife……" — David Brainerd

"I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English."

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70 Quotes by David Brainerd

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I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular…
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained…
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and…
First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect…
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring,…
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least…
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour…
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little…
The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter…
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and…
As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me,…

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