David Livingstone
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.Collection: Men
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.Collection: Faith
Fear God and work hard.Collection: Fear
I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.
Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.Collection: Heart
God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.Collection: God
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?Collection: Wisdom
There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.Collection: Safe
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.Collection: Sacrifice
Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!Collection: Steps
Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand and whose attitude towards me we always uncertain and often hostile? It was this: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world".Collection: Attitude
I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!Collection: Heart
I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.Collection: Inspirational
Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.Collection: Missionary
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.Collection: Sacrifice
And although I see few results, future missionaries will see conversions following every sermon. May they not forget the pioneers who worked in the thick gloom with few rays to cheer, except such as flow from faith in the precious promises of God's Word.Collection: Cheer
I am immortal till my work is accomplishedCollection: Missionary
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.Collection: Sick
Sympathy is no substitute for action.Collection: Christian
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept only in reference to whether giving or keeping will most promote the glory1 of him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity.Collection: Giving
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Sacrifice
God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.Collection: Son
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.Collection: Horse
There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all His people to do. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be led into His work instead of into the service of the hard taskmasters - the Devil and sin.Collection: Blessing
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.Collection: Gratitude
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.Collection: Father
The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock which overhangs the fall, the scenery was the loveliest I had seen.Collection: Beautiful
Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.Collection: Missionary
I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.Collection: Office
God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.Collection: Son
I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.Collection: Missionary
I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I have been enabled so to do, and having felt in some measure its effects on my still depraved and deceitful heart, it is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to his service.Collection: Believe
I am a missionary, heart and soul.Collection: Heart
Providence seems to call me to the regions beyondCollection: Providence
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.Collection: Views
I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.Collection: Children
It is far easier to travel than to write about it.Collection: Writing
Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.Collection: Feet
Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.Collection: Night
.... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.Collection: Eye
I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.Collection: Christianity
It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.Collection: Attachment
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.Collection: War
I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Missionary