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title: "3 Lamin Sanneh Quotes"
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# Lamin Sanneh

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Lamin Sanneh was a Gambian American scholar who was the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School and Professor of History at Yale University.

##  Quotes by Lamin Sanneh

> [Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lamin-sanneh/africans-sensed-in-their-hearts-that-jesus-did-not-mock-their-respect/)

Lamin Sanneh

[African union](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/african-union/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/968/lamin-sanneh-84915_african-union_africans-sensed-in-their-hearts-that-jes_161607.jpg)

> [God was in Christ, reconciling the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lamin-sanneh/god-was-in-christ-reconciling-the-world/)

Lamin Sanneh

[Christ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christ/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/lamin-sanneh-84915_christ_god-was-in-christ-reconciling-the-world_671913.jpg)

> [The original language of Christianity is translation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lamin-sanneh/the-original-language-of-christianity-is-translation/)

Lamin Sanneh

[Christianity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29b/lamin-sanneh-84915_christianity_the-original-language-of-christianity-is_1474284.jpg)

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