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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 assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
David Brainerd
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David Brainerd
Age: 29 †
Born: 1718
Born: April 20
Died: 1747
Died: October 9
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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 moment, we should be devils incarnate!
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It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.
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I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
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It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.
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I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ
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My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements. My soul desires to feel itself more of a pilgrim and a stranger here below, that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father's house.
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This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ.
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No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
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I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.
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I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.
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Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.
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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
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Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing pain. When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable and my thirstings after holiness more unquenchable.
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived and I long daily to die more and more to it even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
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Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
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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 vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me...Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!
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As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
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