{"quotes":[{"text":"One thoughtful Evangelical pastor said he approved of using the massacre for recruitment, as long as it was truly done for God. He bristled at 'spiritual headhunters, just racking up another scalp. The Bible was never meant to be a club,' he said. 'If I'm using it as a weapon, that's really sad.","author":"Dave Cullen","tags":["bible","missionaries","religion","spirituality"],"id":22896,"author_id":"Dave+Cullen"},{"text":"God, I don't really understand You but I know I can hug YOU..","author":"Maria Gregory","tags":["christian-living","ministers","missionaries","pastors","students"],"id":63374,"author_id":"Maria+Gregory"},{"text":"The “romance” of a missionary is often made up of monotony and drudgery; there often is no glamour in it; it doesn’t stir a man’s spirit or blood. So don’t come out to be a missionary as an experiment; it is useless and dangerous. Only come if you feel you would rather die than not come. Don’t come if you want to make a great name or want to live long. Come if you feel there is no greater honor, after living for Christ, than to die for Him.","author":"C.T. Studd","tags":["christ","christianity","god","missionaries","missions","theology"],"id":183759,"author_id":"C.T.+Studd"},{"text":"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...","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["belief","crusades","humor","missionaries","religion"],"id":190282,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.","author":"Arundhati Roy","tags":["anger","corporations","missionaries","neoliberalism","ngos"],"id":231150,"author_id":"Arundhati+Roy"},{"text":"Without needing told, without Jacob's lead, Akando dropped to his knees and lunged into the throne room of Christ.","author":"Willowy Whisper","tags":["christian","indians","missionaries","novel","prayer"],"id":250723,"author_id":"Willowy+Whisper"},{"text":"Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.","author":"Gary Rohrmayer","tags":["leaders","leadership","leadership-characteristics","mission","missional","missionaries","missionary","missionary-work","pastor","pastoral-ministry","pastors"],"id":256829,"author_id":"Gary+Rohrmayer"},{"text":"After years of working with missionaries, I am tempted to conclude that their endeavors merely prolong a dying race's agonies for ten or twenty years. The merciful plowman shoots a trusty horse grown too old for service. As philanthropists, might it not be our duty to likewise ameliorate the savages' sufferings by hastening their extinction? Think of your Red Indians, Adam, think on the treaties you Americans abrogate \u0026 renege on, time \u0026 time \u0026 time again. More humane, surely \u0026 more honest, just to knock the savages on the head \u0026 get it over with?","author":"David Mitchell","tags":["elitism","genocide","indigenous-peoples","justification","justifying-genocide","justifying-murder","missionaries","oppressors","racism"],"id":274973,"author_id":"David+Mitchell"},{"text":"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?","author":"Alexander Strauch","tags":["gospel","love","missionaries"],"id":298623,"author_id":"Alexander+Strauch"},{"text":"To promise to abide by this legislation, so inimical to God, would mean forsaking the gospel and turning away from God's law. This is why Christians have a choice to make, either to trade in their loyalty to God for freedom from persecution, or to remain true to Christ and consequently run the risk of persecution.","author":"Mikhail Khorev","tags":["christianity","church","inspirational","missionaries","missionary","prison","russian-christian","underground-church"],"id":314072,"author_id":"Mikhail+Khorev"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}