If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

Adoniram Judson (Missionary, 1788 – 1850)

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

Adoniram Judson (Missionary, 1788 – 1850)

Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view. Disinterested labor – benevolence – is so out of their line of thought, that many look upon us as having some ulterior object in view; but 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.

David Livingstone (Missionary, 1813 – 1873)

There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all His people to do. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be led into His work instead of into the service of the hard taskmasters – the Devil and sin.

David Livingstone (Missionary, 1813 – 1873)

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept only in reference to whether giving or keeping will most promote the glory of him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity.

David Livingstone (Missionary, 1813 – 1873)

I am a missionary, heart and soul. God had an only Son, and He was a missionary and a physician. I am a poor, poor imitation of Him, or wish to be. In this service I hope to live; in it I wish to die!

David Livingstone (Missionary, 1813 – 1873)

David Livingstone was a missionary to Africa and he was also a doctor. He did exactly what he said in this quote. He lived and died doing this missionary work. He went into the interior of Africa and mapped out a lot of it for the Geographical Society, while preaching the gospel to all of those tribes of people that he came across.

Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand and whose attitude towards me was always uncertain and often hostile? It was this: “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world”.

David Livingstone (Missionary, 1813 – 1873)

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!

David Livingstone (Missionary, 1813 – 1873)

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.

David Livingstone (Missionary, 1813 – 1873)

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

David Livingstone (Missionary, 1813 – 1873)