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
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I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.
In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!
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.
Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. 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. Disinterested labor - benevolence - is so out of their line of thought, that many look upon us as having some ulterior object in view; but He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.
He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps.
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.
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.
It's been busier than ever I guess they were having a going-out-of-business sale.
Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.
The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.
To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.
Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.
If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
I am a missionary, heart and soul.