#missionaries

He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways... ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#crusades #humor #missionaries #religion #experience

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. They were all doing something rather different. ↗

— Colin Firth

#different #doing #going #hitting #idea

You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado. ↗

— Trey Parker

#got #missionaries #need #you

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #bible #came #closed #eyes

If money could motivate the merchants of England to cross death-defying oceans and enter the interior of China at great personal risk of the loss of life, could not the love of Christ motivate the missionaries to do the same for the sake of the gospel? ↗

— Alexander Strauch

#love #missionaries #death

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#chinese #country #get #heaven #into

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#cannibals #constituents #dinner #found #had

Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist. ↗

— Emo Philips

#cd #dutch #german #missionaries #released

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries. ↗

— Will Rogers

#horse #horse racing #makes #missionaries #opinion

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#brazil #grew #i #i was born #missionaries