I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.
David BrainerdOh, 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
David BrainerdAll my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.
David Brainerd