Protestant Christian Missionaries

Famous quotes containing the words protestant, christian and/or missionaries:

    “blow as he would, though it made a great noise,
    The flute would play only ‘The Protestant Boys’.”
    —Unknown. The Old Orange Flute (l. 23–24)

    “From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical
    Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “It was very agreeable, as well as independent, thus lying in the open air, and the fire kept our uncovered extremities warm enough. The Jesuit missionaries used to say, that, in their journeys with the Indians in Canada, they lay on a bed which had never been shaken up since creation, unless by earthquakes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)