David Livingstone Quotes about Sacrifice

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

David Livingstone

Sacrifice, People, Missionary

David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

David Livingstone

Sacrifice, Anxiety, Soul

David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

David Livingstone

Sacrifice, People, Debt

David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23

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