David Livingstone Quotes - Page 2

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• I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

  David Livingstone

  Missionary, May, Kingdoms

  David Livingstone (1960). “Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853”

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• Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.

  David Livingstone

  Missionary, Path, Christ

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• I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.

  David Livingstone

  Christianity, Willing

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• I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

  David Livingstone

  Christian, Unusual, Found

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• May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.

  David Livingstone

  Horse, Men, Thinking

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• To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.

  David Livingstone

  Dark, Snakes, Feet

  David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone (1865). “Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries: And of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858-1864”, p.152

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• Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts of destruction are exempted. It is an inchoate and emotionally laden concept, a semantic mirror of our dishonesty and a repository for everything about war that we would like to disavow. Making a sharp distinction between war and terrorism is at best a self-deceptive game.

  David Livingstone

  War, Mirrors, Self

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• If you knew the satisfaction of performing such a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel, in being chosen for so noble, so sacred a calling, you would have no hesitation in embracing it.

  David Livingstone

  Gratitude, Missionary, Noble

  "Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick".

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• I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.

  David Livingstone

  Father, Sacrifice, Giving

  David Livingstone, Adam Sedgwick (1860). “Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge lectures: together with a prefatory letter”, p.167

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• All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

  David Livingstone

  Christian, Jesus, Book

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• If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.

  David Livingstone

  Humility, Resignation, Grants

  David Livingstone (1960). “Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853”

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• Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view. Disinterested labor - benevolence - is so out of their line of thought, that many look upon us as having some ulterior object in view; but He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.

  David Livingstone

  Prayer, Views, Should Have

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• Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

  David Livingstone

  Missionary, Purpose, Missions

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• In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

  David Livingstone

  Wish To Die, Missionary, Missions

  David Livingstone (1959). “Family Letters, 1841-1856”

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• He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.

  David Livingstone

  Should Have, Grace, Missionary

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• Fear God and work hard.

  David Livingstone

  Hard Work, Missionary, Missions

  David Livingstone (2017). “David Livingstone: Missionary to Africa”, p.69, Ambassador International

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• Self-deception helps us deceive.

  David Livingstone

  Self, Deception, Helping

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• Men are immortal till their work is done.

  David Livingstone

  Men, Done, Immortality

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, letter describing the death of Bishop Mackenzie in Africa (March 1862), (pp. 388-390), 1922.

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• Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

  David Livingstone

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Despair

  David Livingstone, Horace Waller (2011). “The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death: Continued by a Narrative of His Last Moments and Sufferings, Obtained from His Faithful Servants, Chuma and Susi”, p.289, Cambridge University Press

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• Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

  David Livingstone

  Running, Prayer, Views

  David Livingstone (2002). “The Life and African Explorations of Dr. David Livingstone: Comprising All His Extensive Travels and Discoveries : as Detailed in His Diary, Reports, and Letters, Including His Famous Last Journals : with Maps and Numerous Illustrations”, p.516, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It is when great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure the scorn of mankind.

  David Livingstone

  Christian, Heart, Practice

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• All I can say in my solitude is, May Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one - American, English, Turk - who will help to heal this open sore of the world.

  David Livingstone

  Blessing, Heaven, Solitude

  David Livingstone (1940). “Some letters from Livingstone: 1840-1872”

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• I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

  David Livingstone

  Inspiration

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• Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

  David Livingstone

  Missionary, Return, Missions

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• If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.

  David Livingstone

  Home, Missionary, World

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