David Brainerd Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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

2. Alas, that so much of my precious time is spent with so little of God. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

3. 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

4. Nothing seemed to hard for God to perform; nothing to great for me to hope for from Him. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd

5. 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