David Brainerd Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• 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.

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Reading, Superficial Knowledge

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1765). “An Account of the Life of Dav. Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians”, p.275

• As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

  David Brainerd

  Christian, Prayer, Long

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (2010). “The Diary of David Brainerd”, p.364, Cambridge University Press

• When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Reading, Heart

  David BRAINERD (1818). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Corrected. [With Brainerd's Journal.]”, p.264

• This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ.

  David Brainerd

  Morning, Prayer, Soul

• I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Cottages, Littles

• 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.

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Wind, Soul

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.58

• In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life. I was in such anguish, and pleaded with so much earnestness and importunity, that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome; I could scarce walk straight; my joints were loosed; the sweat ran down my face and body; and nature seemed as if it would dissolve.

  David Brainerd

  Prayer, Sweat, Rose

  David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards (1884). “Memoirs of Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians of North America”

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