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Finding an explanation or a quick solution for grief, while an admirable goal, can circumvent the opportunity afforded in lament—to give a person permission to wrestle with sorrow instead of rushing to end it. Walking through sorrow without
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“I longed to spend and be spent for God.”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“My soul was this day, at turns, sweetly set on God. I longed to be with Him that I might behold His glory. I felt sweetly disposed to commit all to Him, even my dearest friends, my dearest flock, my absent brother, and all my concerns for time and eternity. Oh, that His kingdom might come in the world; that they might all love and glorify Him, for what He is in Himself; and that the blessed Redeemer might 'see the travail of his soul, and be satisfied! Oh, come, Lord Jesus, come quickly! Amen.”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“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
“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
“This day, I saw clearly that I should never be happy, yea, that God Himself could not make me happy, unless I could be in a capacity to 'please and glorify Him forever.' Take away this and admit me into all the fine heavens that can be conceived of by men or angels, and I should still be miserable forever.”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
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