"In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my……" — David Brainerd
"In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life. I was in such anguish, and pleaded with so much earnestness and importunity, that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome; I could scarce walk straight; my joints were loosed; the sweat ran down my face and body; and nature seemed as if it would dissolve...."
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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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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
— Balthus
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,…
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
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There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
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The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists,…
— Nick Cave
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
— Leonard Cohen
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what…
— Aberjhani
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all…
— Hermann Hesse
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Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night,…
— Morrie Schwartz
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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