American - Clergyman | April 20, 1718 - October 9, 1747
First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
David Brainerd
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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.
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I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
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I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
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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.
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I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.
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I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.
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I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
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My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.
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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.
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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
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