I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.
David BrainerdWhatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.
David BrainerdIf you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
David BrainerdO my Blessed God! let me climb up near to Him, and love, and long, and plead, and wrestle, and strech after Him, and for deliverence from the body of sin and death. Alas! my soul mourned to think i should ever lose sight of its Beloved again. O come, Lord Jesus, amen.
David Brainerd