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David Brainerd Biography

David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. During his short life he was beset by many difficulties. As a result, his biography has become a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians. Missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801–1829) have been motivated by the ministry of David Brainerd.

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

Christianity, Delight, Hour, Infinitely, World

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

Pain, Precious, Purpose, See, Time

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Indians, Missionary, Prospect, Rational, Remarkable, Time

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

Christian Inspirational, Life, Missionary, Moment, Moments, Spend

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

Desire, Forget, Glorify, Swallowed, World

God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.

Drawn, Prayer, Soul, Though, Wind

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.

Desire, Enjoy, Glorify, Longing, Love, Way

Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.

Christianity, Glorious, Night, Rejoice, Soul, Toward

In the silences I make in the midst of the turmoil of life I have appointments with God. From these silences I come forth with spirit refreshed, and with a renewed sense of power. I hear a voice in the silences, and become increasingly aware that it is the voice of God.

God, Life, Midst, Silence, Spirit, Voice

Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

Devil, Men, Moment, People, Power, Talk

Oh, how precious is time! And how guilty it makes me feel when I think I have trifled away and misimproved it, or neglected to fill up each part of it with duty to the utmost of my ability and capacity

Compromise, Neglected, Part, Sin, Thinking, Trifled

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

Discovery, Faint, Men, Rome, Soul, Spiritual

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

Divine, Knowledge, Meditation, Prayer, Reading, Superficial Knowledge

It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way. . . There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will.

Acting, Christ, Finishing, See, World, Yield

My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements. My soul desires to feel itself more of a pilgrim and a stranger here below, that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father's house.

Allurements, Father, Lonely, Perfect, Soul, Till

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.

Conviction, Convictions, God, Long, Long Time

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

Fear, Fear God, God, Mercy, Showed, Vile

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

Congratulations, Kind, Say, Taught, Willing

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!

Blessed, Live, Present, Sweet, Wholly, World

God plans all perfect combinations.

Combination, Combinations, God, Perfect, Plans, Unity

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