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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.

David Brainerd

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David Brainerd
Age: 29 †
Born: 1718
Born: April 20
Died: 1747
Died: October 9
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Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.
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Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!
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Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.
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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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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 have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.
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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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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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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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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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Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.
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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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It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.
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I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.
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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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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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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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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 hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altigether devoted to Him. i want to wear out my life in His service, and for His Glory!!
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