Data on Missionaries - Forgive US
Homer: All men have need of the Gods.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “let us close our eyes and pray.” When we opened them, we had the Bible, and they had the land.
Oscar Wilde: “Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not”
William Blake: The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
George Bernard Shaw: No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Mahatma Gandhi: I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Buddha: Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Khalil Gibran: I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Galileo Galilei: I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
