Quote of the Week

Our quote this week comes from David Livingstone.  It is slightly longer than our usual quotes, but no less powerful.  I love the attitude that Livingstone displays.  It goes very counter to the attitude that a lot of people have towards cross-cultural ministers, at times pitying them for all they've had to give up to be involved in ministry.

"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? Is that a sacrifice which brings its own blest reward in healthful activity, the consciousness of doing good, peace of mind, and a bright hope of a glorious destiny hereafter? Away with the word in such a view and with such a thought! 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." - David Livingstone