Friday, October 9, 2009

David Livingstone on Motives


“Some of the brethren do not hesitate to tell the natives that my object is to obtain the applause of men. This bothers me, for I sometimes suspect my own motives.

Man is a complex being and we greatly need our motives to be purified from all that is evil.

On the other hand I am conscious that though there is much impurity in my motives, they are in the main for the glory of Him to whom I have dedicated my all.”

David Livingstone, missionary and explorer of Africa