"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."

Bible, Eyes, Land, Missionaries

63

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Bible quotes

"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Bible, World

"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Bible, End

"Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters."

Anita Diament, American Author

Bible, Names, Tradition

"As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'"

Neale Donald Walsch, American Author

Bible, Spirit

"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."

Van Wyck Brooks, American Critic

Bible, Books, English

"Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it."

Dorothy Kilgallen, American Actress

Bible, Act, Churches

"The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools."

Billy Sunday, American Clergyman

Bible, America, Banks, Blood

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Bible, Man

"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."

Jim George, American Author

Bible, Decision, Commitment, Faith

"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Bible, Right

Explore more quotes by Desmond Tutu

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

Justice

"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."

Nature

"Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal."

Nation

"For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too."

People

"When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens."

Will

"What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?"

Politics

"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights."

Compassion

63

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Bible quotes

"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."

"Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible."

"Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters."

"As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'"

"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."

"Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it."

"The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools."

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

"Determining to read through your Bible is a decision only you can make."

"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

Explore more quotes by Desmond Tutu

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."

"Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal."

"For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too."

"Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."

"Without forgiveness, there's no future."

"You must show the world that you abhor fighting."

"When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens."

"What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?"

"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights."