I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
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I love to be a pilgrim and stranger in this wilderness it seems most fit for such a poor ignorant, worthless, despised creature as I.David Brainerd
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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
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First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
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We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.
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