Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit. Except for stories, of course. Tales of poisoned kings and duels and old wars were fine. They dressed death in foreign
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“Oh, a barn, or stable, hedge, or any other place is desirable, if God is there.”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“[I pray] that we might not outlive our usefulness.”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“All my desire was the conversion of the heathen and all my hope was in God. God does not suffer me to please or comfort myself with hopes of seeing friends, returning to my dear acquaintance, and enjoying worldly comforts.”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“I longed to spend and be spent for God.”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“To an eye of reason, everything that respects the conversion of the heathen is as dark as midnight; and yet I cannot but hope in God for the accomplishment of something glorious among them.”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
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