David Livingstone
This generation can only reach this generation.Collection: This Generation
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.Collection: Prayer
Death alone will put a stop to my effort!Collection: Effort
Self-deception helps us deceive.Collection: Self
To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.Collection: Dark
Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.Collection: Missionary
If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.Collection: Humility
Men are immortal till their work is done.Collection: Men
Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Blessing
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.Collection: Should Have
The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources, there is greater presence of mind.Collection: Country
If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.Collection: Home