David Brainerd Quotes

• Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.

  David Brainerd

  Christian, Who I Am, Differences

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• Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

  David Brainerd

  Desire, World, Forget

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• We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

  David Brainerd

  Design, Looks, World

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.491

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• Here am I, send me; send me to the ends of the earth; send me to the rough, the savage lost of the wilderness; send me from all that is called comfort on earth; send me even to death itself, if it be but in your service, and to promote your kingdom

  David Brainerd

  Christian, Earth, Kingdoms

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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.

  David Brainerd

  Dream, Sleep, Soul

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• Dedícate a la oración, a la lectura y a la meditación de las verdades divinas: esfuérzate por penetrar hasta el fondo de ellas y no te contentes nunca con un conocimiento superficial.

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Reading, Superficial Knowledge

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1765). “An Account of the Life of Dav. Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians”, p.275

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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.

  David Brainerd

  Heaven, Soul, Comfort

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, Alexander Anderson (1854). “The Life of David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings”, p.98

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• Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

  David Brainerd

  Delight, World, Christianity

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.50

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• I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

  David Brainerd

  Missionary, Return

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1765). “An Account of the Life of Dav. Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians”, p.171

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• I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

  David Brainerd

  Fire, Glowing, Flames

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• It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

  David Brainerd

  Yield, Acting, Finishing

  David Brainerd (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: From the Honourable Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge; who Died at Northampton in New England, Oct. 9, 1747 ...”, p.242

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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

  David Brainerd

  Soul, Missionary, Hardship

  David Brainerd, Ebenezer Pemberton (1765). “An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd: Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland, for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New Jersey. Who Died at Northampton in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age. Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings, Written for His Own Use; and Now Published”, p.123

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• It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all.

  David Brainerd

  Sweet, Missionary, May

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• If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

  David Brainerd

  Happiness, Happy, World

  David Brainerd (1824). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians, from the Society in Scotland, for Propagating Christian Knowledge: Who Died at Northampton, in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age”, p.302

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• When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Reading, Heart

  David BRAINERD (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]”, p.264

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• Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

  David Brainerd

  Desire, Ambitious, World

  David BRAINERD, Horatius Bonar (1853). “The Life of David Brainerd ... Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With Preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar”, p.255

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• En los silencios que hago en medio de la agitación de la vida tengo citas con Dios. De estos silencios salgo con el espíritu renovado, y con un renovado sentido de poder. Oigo una voz en los silencios, y cada vez soy más consciente de que es la voz de Dios.

  David Brainerd

  Voice, Silence, Spirit

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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!

  David Brainerd

  Heart, Heaven, Wickedness

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.63

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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

  Profound, Soul, Able

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• Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

  David Brainerd

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Moments

  David BRAINERD (1826). “Life and Journal of the Rev. David Brainerd ... By Jonathan Edwards”, p.27

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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.

  David Brainerd

  Lonely, Father, Perfect

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.68

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• Una vez más, nunca pienses que puedes vivir para Dios por tu propio poder o fuerza; sino que siempre busca y confía en Él para asistencia, sí, para toda fuerza y gracia.

  David Brainerd

  Strength, Christian, Thinking

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.125

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• I love to live on the brink of eternity.

  David Brainerd

  Missionary, Christianity, Eternity

  David BRAINERD (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]”, p.49

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• Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey.

  David Brainerd

  Journey, May, Heavenly

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.80

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• Todo mi deseo era la conversión de los paganos... Declaro, ahora que estoy muriendo, que no habría gastado mi vida de otra manera por el mundo entero.

  David Brainerd

  Dying, Desire, Missionary

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