#po

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 board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English. ↗

— David Brainerd

#board #english #his #i #poor

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

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose. ↗

— David Brainerd

#away #good #how #i #i do

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

#always #design #faithfully #glorify #god

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#compositional #does #each #encountered #everything

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#hollywood #hollywood movies #i #kinds #like

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#friendship #most #offers #supports #tangible

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#back #charging #constitution #e-mail #getting

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#directors #element #experience #important #language