David Brainerd Quotes

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

There is nothing small in the service of God.

I serve for the love of God and in Him have all my hope.

My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and its affections, but to breathe after thee. I have nothing to do with my Tongue and Pen, but to speak to thee, and for thee, and to publish thy Glory and thy Will. What have I to do with all my Reputation, and Interest in my Friends, but to increase thy Church, and propagate thy holy Truth and Service? What have I to do with my remaining Time, even these last and languishing hours, but to look up unto thee, and wait for thy Grace, and thy Salvation?

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God.

O how much mercy have I received the year past! How often has God caused his goodness to pass before me! And how poorly have I answered the vows I made this time twelve-month, to be wholly the Lord's, to be forever devoted to his service! The Lord help me to live more to his glory for the time to come. This has been a sweet, a happy day to me; blessed be God... I hardly ever so longed to live to God and to be altogether devoted to Him. I wanted to wear out my life in His service, and for His glory.

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

God wants us to serve willingly and obediently.

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

What is God looking for? He is looking for men and women whose hearts are completely His - completely.

Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

If a guy were dating my daughter but didn't want to spend the gas money to come pick her up or refused to buy her dinner because it cost too much, I would question whether he were really in love with her In the same way, I question whether many American churchgoers are really in love with God because they are so hesitant to do anything for Him." Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Thou hast put me in this world for something, Lord; show me what that is, and help me to work out my life-purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two mites, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity too into thy treasury; I am all thine; take me, and enable me to glorify thee now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have.

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you.

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.

Love's secret is always to be doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such very little ones.

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.