David Brainerd - Life Quotes

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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!

David Brainerd

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

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

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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!!

David Brainerd

In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life. I was in such anguish, and pleaded with so much earnestness and importunity, that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome; I could scarce walk straight; my joints were loosed; the sweat ran down my face and body; and nature seemed as if it would dissolve....

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