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David Livingstone, born on March 19, 1813, in Scotland, was a renowned missionary, explorer, and geographer. He dedicated his life to missionary work in Africa and conducted numerous expeditions, making significant contributions to the study of African geography and culture.

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Famous David Livingstone Quotes

“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.”

Made Space Saws Feet Thousand Hundred Twenties Streams Awe Broads Fifteen Yards Verge

Author:David Livingstone

“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.”

Men Mind Heart Made Self Country Pleasure Animal Greater Effects Resources Mere Right Place Unexplored Self Reliant Presence Of Mind

Book:The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

Source: The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

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

Made Son Missions Missionary Motto Missions And Prayer Only Son

Author:David Livingstone

“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.”

People Made Sacrifice Privilege Missions Spending Missionary Missions In Life

Book:Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick

Source: Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick

“It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing of the common conveniences and charities of this life, may make us pause, and cause the spirit to waver, and the soul to sink; but let this only be for a moment. All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.”

Source: Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick

“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.”

Giving Made Remember Father Left Sacrifice Ought Missionary Thrones Great Sacrifice

Book:Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge lectures: together with a prefatory letter

Source: Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge lectures: together with a prefatory letter

“People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.”

People Made Sacrifice Glory Paid Missions Debt Spending Small Parts Owing Missions In Life

Book:Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick

Source: Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick