Quotes David Brainerd

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some ...

Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious tim...

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to...

As the most extravagant errors were received among the estab...

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians ...

But let me tell you, my brother, eternity is another thing t...

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life...

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business ...

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he...

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was....

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful f...

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any ...

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I....

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, th...

I have now no hopes of prosecuting my journey into New Engla...

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and t...

I love to be a pilgrim and stranger in this wilderness: it s...

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God...

Most men seem to live to themselves, without much regard to ...

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a con...

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slid...

Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own ...

Set yourself, my brother, to crush all appearances of this n...

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infin...

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast emp...