David Livingstone Missionary Quotations

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

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.

In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

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

I am a missionary, heart and soul.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Death alone will put a stop to my effort!

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

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

Fear God and work hard.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

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

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

I am immortal till my work is accomplished