David Livingstone Quotes - Page 2

Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

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

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

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

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

It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Men are immortal till their work is done.

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

Fear God and work hard.

Self-deception helps us deceive.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

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.

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

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