"I love to live on the brink of…" — David Brainerd
"I love to live on the brink of eternity."
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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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If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life…
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My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on…
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Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing.…
— David O. McKay
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The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
— Oscar Wilde
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Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the…
— Sigmund Freud
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It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near…
— Thomas Brooks
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If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than…
— Rajiv Shah
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If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not…
— Gemma Galgani
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For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves…
— Thomas Merton
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During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will…
— Henry A. Wallace
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She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything…
— Charles Dickens
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