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David Brainerd Quotes: Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!
         

Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!


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



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I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts.



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Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.



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



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I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.



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