David Brainerd Quotes

God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

God has created me to do him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission; I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.

While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

God's purpose is more important than our plans.

You are exactly what God had in mind when he made you.

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

I believe God wants me to be President.

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It’s far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

First of all things, learn to know and love that God to who ye have a double obligation; first, that He made you a man; and next that He made you a little God to sit on his throne and rule over other men.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there is a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Whereas the glory of Almighty God and the good of mankind is the reason and the end of government ... therefore government itself is a venerable ordinance of God

If this is of God, it will endure …

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

Reason, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason.

To understand God’s thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.

Nature according to God's will created some people to follow, and some to lead

War has its evils. In all ages it has been the minister of wholesale death and appalling desolation; but however inscrutable to us, it has been made, by the Allwise Dispenser of events, the instrumentality of accomplishing the great end of human elevation and human happiness .... It is in this view that I subscribe to the doctrine of manifest destiny.