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.
Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey. - David Brainerd
Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey.
- David Brainerd
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 thou… - David Brainerd
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 thou…
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 superficia… - David Brainerd
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 superficia…
Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God. - David Brainerd
Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.
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 comfor… - David Brainerd
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 comfor…
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… - David Brainerd
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…
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 … - David Brainerd
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 …
Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am. - David Brainerd
Lord, let me make a difference for you that is utterly disproportionate to who I am.
There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul. - David Brainerd
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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