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David Brainerd Quotes: If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
         

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


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



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

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



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

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



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.

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.



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 superficial knowledge.

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 superficial knowledge.



There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.



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.

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.



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

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



I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ



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.

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.



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

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





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