It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am.
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.
My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us.
If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape
She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
Missionaries labor diligently to teach and baptize those who accept the gospel. In the process, their own testimonies become deeply rooted.
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.
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.
An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.
Trading Post missionary: God damn your soul to the fires of Hell! William Blake: He already has.
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.
Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.
Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.
What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality and truthfulness of the Hindus evidently has been very low. Such seeds of enmity and hatred have been sown...
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.
