Find preachers of David Brainerd's spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.

No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

Because God is not only infinitely greater and more excellent than all other being, but he is the head of the universal system of existence; the foundation and fountain of all being and all beauty; from whom all is perfectly derived, and on whom all is most absolutely and perfectly dependent; of whom, and through whom, and to whom is all being and all perfection; and whose being and beauty are, as it were, the sum and comprehension of all existence and excellence: much more than the sun is the fountain and summary comprehension of all the light and brightness of the day.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.