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I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
David Brainerd
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David Brainerd
Age: 29 †
Born: 1718
Born: April 20
Died: 1747
Died: October 9
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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.
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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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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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It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.
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I am an old sinner and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
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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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Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity
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O my Blessed God! let me climb up near to Him, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle, and strech after Him, and for deliverence from the body of sin and death. Alas! my soul mourned to think i should ever lose sight of its Beloved again. O come, Lord Jesus, amen.
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I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.
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Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
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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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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
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Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.
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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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There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best and this is the comfort of my soul.
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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 infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
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