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When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes.…

— Desmond Tutu

“When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed.…

— Jomo Kenyatta

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.…

— Colin Firth

First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land

— Chief Dan George

Non-African missionaries, responding generously to the Lord's call with ardent apostolic zeal, came to share the joy of revelation. Following in their footsteps, Africans…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The more I learned about religion in Africa, the more intrigued I became. It was as if the continent was gripped with religious fervor.…

— Roger Ross Williams

The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have…

— Nelson Mandela

I believe that the preaching of the living word of God is something that Africa hungers for.

— Reinhard Bonnke

Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to…

— Bear Grylls

“And God was here anyway, before the missionaries came. We called him by a different name, then, and he did not live over at…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall…

— Edward Wilmot Blyden

“Have not the popish missionaries surmounted all those difficulties which we have generally thought to be insuperable? Have not the missionaries of the Unitas…

— William Carey