Famous quotes containing the words evangelical, missionary and/or society:
“Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (18111896)
“Were scientists, arent we? Thats one society where frayed cuffs dont matter. Weve all had em.”
—Walter Reisch (19031963)