David Livingstone

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.”

“Fear God and work hard.”

“For my own part, I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word 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.”

“I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.”

“I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.”