All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
– David Livingstone
Scripture
If a commission by an earthly king is considered an honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
– David Livingstone
Obedience | Sacrifice
Fear God and work hard.
– David Livingstone
Achievement | Work
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.
– David Livingstone
Evangelism | Sacrifice
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.
– David Livingstone
Evangelism | Men
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
– David Livingstone
Giving
God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician.
– David Livingstone
Jesus
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.
– David Livingstone
Evangelism
Sympathy is no substitute for action.
– David Livingstone
Achievement | Sympathy
Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.
– David Livingstone
Fasting
God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.
– David Livingstone
Missions
For thirty years his life was spent in an unwearied effort to evangelize.
– David Livingstone
Death | Evangelism
Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!
– David Livingstone
Christ
Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
– David Livingstone
Perseverance
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.
– David Livingstone
Giving | Money
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.
– David Livingstone
Perseverance