#ear

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#clear #commitment #enable #firm #ideas

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#happily #i #interest #life #married

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

— David Brainerd

#fear god #god #i #mercy #never

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

— David Brainerd

#god #learning #long #long time #our

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. ↗

— David Brainerd

#comfort #daily #derived #desirable #desire

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. ↗

— David Brainerd

#divine #employed #fill #hands #heart

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was. ↗

— David Brainerd

#ever #i #i am #i think #life

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. ↗

— Edward Fairfax

#ear #every #hear #joy #mind

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God. ↗

— David Brainerd

#fear #finally #god #i #left

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. ↗

— David Brainerd

#beheld #deplorable #eye #father #god