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Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

David Brainerd
Desire, World, Forget

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

David Brainerd
Desire, Ambitious, World
David BRAINERD, Horatius Bonar (1853). “The Life of David Brainerd ... Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With Preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar”, p.255

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

David Brainerd
Dying, Desire, Missionary

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.

David Brainerd
Pain, Soul, Desire
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

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

David Brainerd
Desire, Way, Longing
David Brainerd (1824). “The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians, from the Society in Scotland, for Propagating Christian Knowledge: Who Died at Northampton, in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age”, p.291

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