Quotes About Missionaries In Africa

#1. May the time come when rich men and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries in Africa, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses.

David Livingstone

#2. I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it.

David Cameron

#3. And an even bigger army of Catholic missionaries marched in on your heels and told the Africans that if they used the condoms, they'd all go to hell. Africa has a new environmental issue now - landfills overflowing with unused condoms.

Dan Brown

#4. The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade.

Andrew Mwenda

#5. If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape

Maya Angelou

#6. There is a story ... which is fairly well known, told about when missionaries came to Africa, that they had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. And then they said, "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. And when we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible.

Desmond Tutu

#7. WHATEVER MISHAP MAY BEFALL YOU, IT IS ON ACCOUNT OF SOMETHING WHICH YOU HAVE DONE."
Prophet Muhammad.

Michael Francis John

#8. I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

Bruce Springsteen

#9. There are a lot of people who touch the customer.

Roger Staubach

#10. It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

John Henrik Clarke

#11. A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man:

John Steinbeck

#12. Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

George Henry Lewes

#13. Each man is the steward of his own soul.

Gavriel Savit

#14. I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Samuel Johnson

#15. Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

Vance Havner

#16. I loved Katrina and the Waves.

Bonnie Tyler

#17. For there will be no memory of the wise man or of the fool; in the days to come all will be forgotten, and alas, the wise man dies the same death as the fool!

Anonymous

#18. It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

Edward Norton

#19. There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson

#20. Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.

Victor Hugo

#21. 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

#22. P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency

Ivan Illich

#23. TABLE 2.1 The Spectrum of Manic Symptoms

Jim Phelps