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title: 'David Brainerd on Redeeming the Time'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-07-30
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-david-brainerd-on-redeeming-the-time
---

# David Brainerd on Redeeming the Time

“I find nothing more conducive to a life of Christianity, than a diligent, industrious and faithful improvement of precious time. Let us then faithfully perform that business, which is allotted to us by divine providence, to the utmost of our bodily strength, and mental vigour.” — [**David Brainerd**](/authors/david-brainerd), December 27, 1743 Letter to John Brainerd