Top 52 All David Livingstone Quotes

#1. 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.

David Livingstone

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#2. 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.

David Livingstone

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#3. Fear God and work hard.

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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#5. It is working with clients and changing that perception. I don't mind if market commentators have that view. It's the view that clients have that matters.

David Livingstone

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#6. 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.

David Livingstone

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#7. Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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#9. 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

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#10. There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all His people to do. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be led into His work instead of into the service of the hard taskmasters - the Devil and sin.

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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#12. The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources, there is greater presence of mind.

David Livingstone

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#13. 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.

David Livingstone

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#14. Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect. Human rights aren't lying around waiting to be discovered. They're made, not found.

David Livingstone Smith

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#15. The brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.

David Livingstone

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#16. 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

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#17. I am a missionary, heart and soul.

David Livingstone

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#18. If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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#21. I am immortal till my work is accomplished

David Livingstone

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#22. 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

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

David Livingstone

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#24. When David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls he said, "Sights such as these must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight,"' Hector told her softly.

Wilbur Smith

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#25. 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.

David Livingstone

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#26. Self-deception helps us deceive.

David Livingstone

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#27. 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!

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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#29. Before dehumanizing a population, we set them apart as a "race." That is, a variety of people who are fundamentally different from "us." The folk notion of race is very much an artificial construction.

David Livingstone Smith

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

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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#33. Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand and whose attitude towards me we always uncertain and often hostile? It was this: "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world".

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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#35. History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.

Desmond Tutu

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#36. I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.

David Livingstone

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#37. This generation can only reach this generation.

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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#39. Bin Nassib came last night and visited me before going home to his own house; a tall, brown, polite Arab. He says that he lately received a packet for Mr. Stanley from the American Consul, sealed in tin, and sent it back: this is the eleventh that came to Stanley. A

David Livingstone

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#40. 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

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#41. 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.

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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#43. Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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#45. Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.

Henry Morton Stanley

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#46. 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.

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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

David Livingstone

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#51. It is not all pleasure this exploration.

David Livingstone

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#52. All I can say in my solitude is, May Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one - American, English, Turk - who will help to heal this open sore of the world.

David Livingstone

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