"I have withstood the power of convictions a……" — David Brainerd
"I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God."
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David Brainerd
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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…
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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained…
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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and…
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First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect…
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When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring,…
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least…
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We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour…
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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little…
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The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter…
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Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and…
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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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More Conviction Quotes
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience,…
— Franklin P. Adams
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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I have the courage of my convictions.
— Brigitte Bardot
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated…
— Saint Basil
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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
— Felix Adler
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I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind…
— Bono
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do…
— Barbara Boxer
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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