"My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements. My soul desires to feel itself more of a pilgrim and a stranger here below, that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father's house."

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.68

David Brainerd

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“Maybe honeymoons are God's anesthesia. Like the "laughing gas" used by dentists, perhaps honeymoons are designed to protect us from a bit of the pain and fear involved in doing something that, while scary and uncomfortable, is for our own good in the long run.”

Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2003). “The Courage to be a Stepmom: Finding Your Place Without Losing Yourself”, p.90, Council Oak Books
“Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.”

Source : Mark Mills (2008). “The Savage Garden”, p.188, Penguin
“It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.”
“Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.”
“Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.”
“My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.”
“Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.”

Source : Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.17, Xist Publishing
“Even though more people can build websites today than even 10 years ago, I think there's probably even less really deep understand of how a good website gets built than there was even then.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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