Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
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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
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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Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.
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I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
David Brainerd
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