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Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
David Brainerd
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David Brainerd
Age: 29 †
Born: 1718
Born: April 20
Died: 1747
Died: October 9
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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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I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them when I awake they are first in my thoughts.
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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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I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
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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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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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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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God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.
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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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