Missionaries Quotes

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The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. — Edward Abbey
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a… — Jeff Bezos
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. — Pearl S. Buck
Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters -… — Tony Campolo
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… — John Henrik Clarke
Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the… — David Jeremiah
It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special… — Ivan Illich
Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at… — Richard G. Scott
By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and… — Therese of Lisieux
...The baptized in their sense of mission, through prayer, the witness of life and Christian commitment in all its forms, so that all the faithful… — Pope Benedict XVI
For more than 160 years, through the initiative of the French bishop Charles de Forbin Janson, the childhood of Jesus has become the icon for… — Pope Benedict XVI
And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are… — Nate Saint
Today five out of six non-Christians in our world have no hope unless missionaries come to them and plant the church among them. — David Bryant
One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries. — Robertson Davies
I was once a skeptic but was converted by the two missionaries on either side of my nose. — Robert Breault
If you are looking for vocations, as a community have adoration every day. Once the Missionaries of Charity started daily adoration, their vocations doubled — Mother Teresa
I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a certain amount of… — Michael Dorris
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality… — Mark Twain
...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me… — Barack Obama
My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those… — Evangeline Lilly

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