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David Livingstone

David Livingstone (/ˈlɪvɪŋstən/; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Christian Congregationalist, pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late-18th-century Victorian era. He had a mythical status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of commercial and colonial expansion.

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I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

Approach, Children, Father, Frame, Posture, Secret

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

Fastings, Object, Prayer, Running, Special, Views

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.

Emotionally, Exempted, Mirrors, Self, Terrorism, War

. . . . the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the eye is clear, the step is firm, and a day's exertion always makes the evening's repose thoroughly enjoyable.

Brain, Exercise, Eye, Fresh, Journey, Step

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

Except, Kingdoms, May, Missionary, Relation, Value

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.

Honor, Horse, Instead, Men, Support, Thinking

I am a missionary, heart and soul.

Heart, Missionary, Soul

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

Book, Christian, Jesus, Revealed

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.

Calling, Embracing, Gratitude, Missionary, Noble

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

Despair, Don'T Give Up, Earthly, Giving Up, Make, Work

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

Easier, Travel, Write, Writing

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

Failure, Grants, Humility, Resignation, Success

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.

Blessing, English, Heaven, Help, Say, Solitude

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

Christian, Endowments, Found, Intellect, Unusual

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.

Died, Follow, Grace, Missionary, Should Have, Steps

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.

Attachment, Believe, Believing, Having, Heart, Salvation

Men are immortal till their work is done.

Done, Immortal, Immortality, Men, Work

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.

Africa, Debt, People, Revealed, Sacrifice

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.

Sacrifice, People, Missionary, Life, Talk

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

Alone, Christ, Missionary, World

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