“Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations,”
“My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.”
― 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
“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
“Oh, how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men’s power and goodness when, if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!”
― 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
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