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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

Oscar Wilde

It was a good experience for me to see missionaries and what they do. The children's English was really good. It's pretty sad to see how they live, but we just have to pray that things will get better.

Melissa Walker

We are very strict about this: We do not do any evangelism, we are not missionaries. Our interest is to bring an end to the violence and destruction of civilian life in Iraq.

Jessica Phillips

If this dictator starts to think of evangelicals as people who are gunning for him, that could be difficult for missionaries there.

Ted Haggard

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.

Alex Carey

We're coming up on in-gathering for Mary Hill Davis Offering for state missions. My church has just become a church made up completely of missionaries. This is mission right here, and this is so exciting.

John Franklin

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

H. L. Mencken

Joseph and I have both been missionaries. After that experience, you need to have something to do!

Brian Turner

That was one of the things she held against missionaries: how they stressed Christ's submission to humiliation, and so had conditioned the people of Africa to humiliation by the white man.

Nadine Gordimer

The reason we're doing it is to be able to train more missionaries, to train more effectively and become more efficient with all of our resources.

David Meyers

From that moment on, the evangelization of Mexico's Indians really began. Their encounter with the cloak of the Virgin made conversions and the work of the missionaries very easy.

Hector Fernandez

I was mostly doing construction. Our job was to make the stay for the next missionaries much easier so they could focus on the conditions at hand.

Brett Chatham

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Edward Abbey