Christianity Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Christianity Clergy Education Indian Missionary Native Native american
I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse. — William Carey Copy Share Image
I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well. — George Crook Copy Share Image
Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
It's something that I definitely want to get involved in, learning about my Indian heritage and culture. — Sam Kerr Copy Share Image
“It seems to have been meeting Methodist missionaries from India that inspired Margaret with her ambition, curious in someone little more than a child,… — Charles Moore Copy Share Image
The Indians seemed to be living in a place and in a way that was of immense importance to me. So I associate learning… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Love for the Lord, love for His servants the missionaries. Missionary work is a work of love and trust, and it has to be… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I go to South Dakota for ceremonies when I have the time. And when you learn what the Indian peoples have gone through to… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
“Catholic missionaries labored earnestly to convert indians. They fervently believed that God expected them to save the Indians' souls by convincing them to abandon… — James L. Roark Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the KKK, I would have a little… — Norman Moss Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
