"Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!"

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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.78

David Brainerd

#Sweet Quotes #Blessed Quotes #World Quotes

“In the theater you can chain a blue-assed baboon in the stalls and with a good script, good actors, and a good set you'd have what is called a production. With the cinema someone has to know about lenses and fine things. I have no time for the "auteur de cinema." To me, it's meaningless.”
“I can't make you love me if you don't, You can't make your heart feel something it won't.”
“Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.”
“I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.”
“Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.”

Source : Interview with Katie Bacon, www.theatlantic.com. November 02, 2001.
“It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.”
“Three things a leader or manager should be thinking: What's happening? What's not happening? and What can I do to influence the outcome?”
“The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.”

Source : Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.25, Editorial MAXTOR

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