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“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.”
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“I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.”
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“Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!”
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“I am immortal till my work is accomplished”
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“I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward.”
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“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.”
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“If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?”
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“This generation can only reach this generation.”
— David Livingstone#This Generation Quotes #Missionary Quotes #Generations Quotes
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“God had only one Son, and He was a missionary.”
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“Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.”
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“Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.”
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“In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!”
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“I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.”
— David LivingstoneSource : “Livingstone’s private journals, 1851-1853”.
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“All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.”
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“Death alone will put a stop to my effort!”
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“It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.”
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“The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise.”
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“Anywhere, provided it be forward– farther still farther into the night.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
— David LivingstoneSource : David Livingstone (1858). “Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick”, p.23
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“I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.”
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“God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.”
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“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.”
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“There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.”
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“If we have not enough in our religion . . . to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I’d rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.”
— David Livingstone
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