David Livingstone Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

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

Self-deception helps us deceive.

It is not all pleasure this exploration.

I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.

I am a missionary, heart and soul.

Cannot the love of Christ carry the missionary where the slave-trade carries the trader? I shall open up a path to the interior or perish.

I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.

I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.

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

Fear God and work hard.

I am immortal till my work is accomplished

Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

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

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

I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

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

It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.

Men are immortal till their work is done.

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

The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.

If we have not enough in our religion to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.

This generation can only reach this generation.

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

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.

It's been busier than ever I guess they were having a going-out-of-business sale.

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

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

Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

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

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

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

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

Anywhere, provided it be forward
farther still farther into the night.

I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.