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  • Men are immortal till their work is done.

    "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.
  • 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.

    "Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick".
  • If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

  • God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

  • It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

    David Livingstone (1859). “LIVINGSTONES'S TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SO UTH AFRICA”, p.17
  • 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!

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

    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
  • Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in 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
  • I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

  • This generation can only reach 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.

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

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

  • I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.

    "David Livingstone: Missionary to Africa".
  • 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.

    David Livingstone (1857). “Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa”, p.244
  • 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.

  • Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.

  • I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

  • The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Giving  
    "Livingstone's private journals, 1851-1853".
  • It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

  • Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

    David Livingstone (1959). “Family Letters, 1841-1856”
  • There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.

  • 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.

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