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It seems the more money they have the less they think of God.
The Poor Christ of Bomba (1956)
When the daughter dies, the son-in-law dies.
The Poor Christ of Bomba (1956)
But it's when we pity someone that we feel closest to them, and just now I certainly love him more than my own father.
The Poor Christ of Bomba (1956)
It was impossible for devils to live in men; men do as they please and the devil has nothing to do with it.
The Poor Christ of Bomba (1956)
....evangelizing the blacks is like taking an old water jug and trying to turn it into an amphora?...
The Poor Christ of Bomba (1956)
No one is interested any more, except the women. Only the women have religion in their blood; the men are completely indifferent. They claim that there's no difference between a Greek trader and a priest.......
The Poor Christ of Bomba (1956)
The best religion in the world remained that of St John of Kala, which consisted of two basic commandments: When you are thirsty, drink anything except water; and never forgo any occasion for making love, whatever time of day it may be (Sundays included).
Mission to Kala (1957)
And why are they better Christians along the roads, unless it's because they are constantly exposed to the exactions of soldiers and chiefs, or the demands of forced labour? Here they know nothing of all these woes. If God would only send them a warning.
The Poor Christ of Bomba (1956)
In our country what Europeans describe as ‘adultery’ (a word loaded with heavy Puritanism) doesn’t on the whole provoke really violent reactions, even if people aren’t entirely indifferent to such peccadilloes.
Mission to Kala (1957)
The seriousness with which any adultery is regarded is in exact proportion to the physical or social ‘distance’ between the two tribes – those, that is, of the cuckolded husband and the intrusive lover respectively.
Mission to Kala (1957)
I am the earth she rests on … By herself she is nothing but a dead leaf that has broken loose from the tree. For all her flattering and gyrations, in the end she cannot prevent herself falling to the ground.
Mission to Kala (1957)