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David Brainerd Quotes about Heaven

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards, Alexander Anderson (1854). “The Life of David Brainerd, Missionary to the Indians: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings”, p.98

Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own vileness. Oh what a body of death is there in me...Oh the closest walk with God is the sweetest heaven that can be enjoyed on earth!

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.63