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David Livingstone
David Livingstone

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. more

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

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Book:The Life and African Explorations of Dr. David Livingstone: Comprising All His Extensive Travels and Discoveries : as Detailed in His Diary, Reports, and Letters, Including His Famous Last Journals : with Maps and Numerous Illustrations
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“Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts of destruction are exempted. It is an inchoate and emotionally laden concept, a semantic mirror of our dishonesty and a repository for everything about war that we would like to disavow. Making a sharp distinction between war and terrorism is at best a self-deceptive game.”

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“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.”

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Book:Cambridge Lectures: Together with a Prefatory Letter by Sedgwick
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“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.”

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