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title: 'David Brainerd: “Our Strength and Salvation is in God”'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-02-17
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-david-brainerd-our-strength-and-salvation-is-in-god
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# David Brainerd: “Our Strength and Salvation is in God”

“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**](/authors/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