Bible Quote by Jomo Kenyatta

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

There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives,…

— Desmond M

“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

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

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

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

“The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible.”

— Anonymous

“placed my feet on African soil for the first time. For many years, I had wanted to travel to the continent, and the moment…

— Nathan Cole

“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

“This is a story of Africa. A pioneer woman's journey north was merely the beginning.”

— Jeffrey Whittam

“One British missionary was asked repeatedly by Africans, "Has the Savior you tell us of any power to save us from the rubber trouble?”

— Adam Hochschild

“Christ then will be seen as fully African and black, fully one of them and on their side. It is this Christ that will…

— Robert J. Schreiter