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David Brainerd Missionary

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Apr 20, 1718
  • Died: Oct 9, 1747

David Brainerd was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. During his short life he was beset by many difficulties. As a result, his biography has become a source of inspiration and encouragement to many Christians, including missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.