“Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to, and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace. There is no greater truth, than this, that we can do nothing, of ourselves; Job. xv. 5. and 2 Cor. iii. 5. Yet nothing but our own experience can effectually teach it to us. Indeed we are a long time in learning, that all our strength and salvation is in God.” — David Brainerd in Jonathan Edwards, An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd, Minister of the Gospel...Chiefly Taken From His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings (1749), p. 265