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I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

~David Brainerd

Topics: Any Board English His Poor Scarce Talk Wife

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I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

~David Brainerd

Topics: Design God May Observed Perhaps Secret Service Singular Some Some Things Things Thought World You

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

~David Brainerd

Topics: Convictions Fear Finally God Left Long Long Time Power Shall Therefore Time

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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.

~David Brainerd

Topics: Appears Comfort Daily Derived Desirable Desire Die Earnestly Empty Empty Space Even Huge Least Like Long Me More More And More Nothing Obtain Possibly Satisfactory Space Spiritual Things Though Vacuum Vast Whence Which Whole World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: Unknown

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