“ The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
- 2.8K
“ The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
- 700
“ If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
- 1.8K
“ That was one of the things she held against missionaries: how they stressed Christ's submission to humiliation, and so had conditioned the people of Africa to humiliation by the white man. ”
- Nadine Gordimer- Copy
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“ Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none. ”
- A. W. Tozer- Copy
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“ Feast of Boniface (Wynfrith) of Crediton, Archbishop of Mainz, Apostle of Germany, Martyr, 754 The Pauline teaching is the means through which God Himself wants to teach us; Paul's Epistle to the Romans is a letter from God to us, mankind today. It remains the great problem of interpretation, hitherto never entirely solved, how to unite these two things: the keen attention to what Paul wanted to say to that community then, and the search for what God wants to say to us through Paul today… ”
- Emil Brunner- Copy
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“ Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake! ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ The pope is becoming a missionary, you will say. Yes, the pope is becoming a missionary, which means a witness, a shepherd, an apostle on the move. ”
- Pope Paul VI- Copy
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“ The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison. ”
- Paul Gauguin- Copy
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“ As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives… ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
- 1.5K
“ When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. ”
- Desmond Tutu- Copy
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“ If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table. ”
- Craig Claiborne- Copy
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“ When the missionaries first came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, "Let us pray". We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land. ”
- Henry McNeal Turner- Copy
- 3.2K
“ We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. ”
- Pearl S. Buck- Copy
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“ If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king. ”
- Jordan Grooms- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon… ”
- Charlotte Bronte- Copy
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“ Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community. ”
- Ivan Illich- Copy
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“ That was one of the things that James Taylor said about us when he inducted us into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; that this was a real working band. It's very obvious when people come down to see the show tonight, they'll understand that this band has been getting along better personally and musically for the past couple of years and we're flying. ”
- Graham Nash- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I've been a prisoner and lived in prison for a while; I've been a missionary in China; I've been a vampire and a priest in Poland in World War II. I guess without bragging or being too prideful about it I'm excited when I look back at these things that I've done… ”
- Willem Dafoe- Copy
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“ Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. ”
- Thomas Chalmers- Copy
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“ We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. ”
- Peter Akinola- Copy
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“ How large a share of vanity must spur the piety of the missionary. There is something melodramatic in landing on some Fiji island, in baptising, debauching and ultimately murdering the unsuspecting savage; then in taking his land in the name of the Most High. ”
- Richard Birnie- Copy
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