#david brainerd

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

Se um dia eu chegar ao céu, isto acontecerá porque Deus quis assim, e nada mais; pois nunca fiz qualquer coisa por mim mesmo que não seja me afastar de Deus.

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

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

I never got away from Jesus, and Him crucified, and I found that when my people were gripped by this great evangelical doctrine of Christ and Him crucified, I had no need to give them instructions about morality.  I found that one followed as the sure and inevitable fruit of the other…  I find my Indians begin to put on the garments of holiness and their common life begins to be sanctified even in small matters when they are possessed by the doctrine of Christ and Him crucified.

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end.