Quote by David Brainerd
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and

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

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I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects. – David Brainerd

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thankful
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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

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respect
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We should always look upon ourselves as Gods servants, placed in Gods 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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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. – Joseph Butler

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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. – Walter Savage Landor

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. – Denis Diderot

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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. – Kin Hubbard

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