16 David Livingstone Quotes

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

If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

Fear God and work hard.

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.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

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.

God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician.

Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

I place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of God. If anything will advance the interests of the kingdom, it shall be given away or kept, only as by giving or keeping it I shall most promote the glory of Him to whom I owe all my hopes in time or eternity.

God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.

For thirty years his life was spent in an unwearied effort to evangelize.

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!

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

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.

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.