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1. "I have received my all from God. Oh that I could return my all to God" ~ David Brainerd
2. "There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul. . .How blessed it is to grow more and more like God!" ~ David Brainerd
3. "If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world." ~ David Brainerd
4. "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." ~ David Brainerd
5. "We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God." ~ David Brainerd
6. "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
7. "I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was." ~ David Brainerd
8. "I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English." ~ David Brainerd
9. "I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world." ~ David Brainerd
10. "I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God." ~ David Brainerd
11. "Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none." ~ David Brainerd
12. "A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence." ~ David Brainerd
13. "As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further." ~ David Brainerd
14. "First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety." ~ David Brainerd
15. "Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him." ~ David Brainerd
16. "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." ~ David Brainerd
17. "I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I." ~ David Brainerd
18. "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
19. "Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time." ~ David Brainerd
20. "Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose." ~ David Brainerd
21. "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." ~ David Brainerd
22. "I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now." ~ David Brainerd
23. "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." ~ David Brainerd
24. "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
25. "It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing that Christ may be all in all." ~ David Brainerd
26. "Oh that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory." ~ David Brainerd
27. "Oh that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him." ~ David Brainerd

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