David Livingstone
David Livingstone
David Livingstonewas a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa, one of the most popular national heroes of late–19th-century in Victorian Britain. He had a mythical status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial and colonial expansion...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth19 March 1813
CityBlantyre, Scotland
David Livingstone quotes about
I never made a sacrifice. Of this we ought not to talk when we remember the great sacrifice which he made who left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.
If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.
Sympathy is no substitute for action.
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.
Self-deception helps us deceive.
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.
It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.
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.
Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.
This generation can only reach this generation.
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.
Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond