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

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. — Bertrand Russell
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. — Mohandas Gandhi
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. — Thomas Huxley
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God. — David Brainerd
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
First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety. — David Brainerd