Quote by Michael B. Oren

“Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.”

— Robert C. Shannon

“It is extreme folly for any people to send thousands of missionaries out into the world to preach the Gospel to the nations, and…

— Joseph F. Smith

“As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any…

— Tahir Shah

“if there’s anything missionaries do well, it’s seek out and destroy fun).”

— Christopher Moore

“While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death.”

— Sam Harris

“Even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, Christian missionaries have run across some who were not so quick to swallow…

— Anton Szandor LA Vey

“In short, missionaries are scaring people into changing their behavior and abandoning their tradition. They are destroying entire cultures for the single purpose of…

— Al Stefanelli

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

— Charles Dickens

“Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which was already…

— Tom Althouse

“Life is not so predictable. I am forced to listen more carefully. In the right and left worlds, the stories told are largely set,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Only here is suffering really suffering. Not in the way that those who suffer here are to be ennobled in some other world for…

— Franz Kafka

We went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them…

— Brian Andreas