David Brainerd Quotes

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

David Brainerd

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• Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Made
  • Tolerance
  • Liberal

• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Opportunity
  • Space
  • Eyes

• Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Feelings
  • Say
  • Texas

• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Second
  • Liked
  • Rembrandt

• The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Best
  • Parent
  • Search

• I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Like
  • Dark

• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Evil

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Accept

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Questions
  • Figure
  • Online

• I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Work
  • Political
  • Years

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Baby
  • Look
  • Chocolate

• Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Working
  • Modeling

• It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Sleep
  • Design

• Don't forget, I'm 39. I didn't come here just for the money to impress myself. I'm not saying I am going to be dominating. I'm not saying I'm going to be good. But I can promise you I will do all the right things to play.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • Good
  • Money
  • Promise

• Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions.

  

  Peter Brimelow

• I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• Science-fiction cities in general, I think, are so hard to get right, because it's so easy to just play some cheesy music or do something that takes you right out of it, but 'Blade Runner' got it right, and I love that about the film.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Music
  • Science
  • Cheesy

• We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

  

  David Brainerd
  • World
  • Good
  • Work