"Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing pain. When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable and my thirstings after holiness more unquenchable."

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Source : 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.80

David Brainerd

#Pain Quotes #Soul Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.”
“The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.”

Source : Rufus Choate (2002). “The Political Writings of Rufus Choate”, p.52, Regnery Gateway
“Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.”
“If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.”
“A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.”
“I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I just felt like this film was just being genuine. I just felt like it had really great characters. And all the three different characters have completely different stories and they're all kind of intertwined together thematically. So I just thought it had great characters, great themes”

Source : Source: collider.com
“You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.”
“It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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