DAVID LIVINGSTONE

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

Fear God and work hard.

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

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

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.

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

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

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

I go back to Africa to make a path for commerce and Christianity.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

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.

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.

I saw the duty and inestimable privilege _immediately_ to accept salvation by Christ. Humbly believing that through sovereign mercy and grace I have been enabled so to do, and having felt in some measure its effects on my still depraved and deceitful heart, it is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to his service.

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

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

Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.

Men are immortal till their work is done.