Quotes About The Nations

#1. We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed today: civic society development, education and economic development.

Colin Powell

#2. I stood upon the highest mountain of the world and I knew more than I saw, I understood more than I knew, because I was seeing in a sacred manner. And what I saw were the hoops of all the nations interlocking in on great circle.

Black Elk

#3. That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.

Stephen Return Riggs

#4. I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the background, the foundation upon which that religion is built.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. Knowledge, concentrated into wisdom, is the end of existence. To those who live according to God's law, knowledge will come easily. It will continue to come to his people, until it shall be the most intelligent among the nations. The Lord has said it. "How

John A. Widtsoe

#6. What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and to live to God? These are the pleasures - these are the spectacles - that befit Christian men.

Tertullian

#7. He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.

Isaac Watts

#8. Global evangelism does not take place in a demilitarized zone but on the battleground of spiritual warfare. Satan, in vengeance and jealousy for that which belongs to God, is deceiving the nations and holding them in bondage to a lie.

Ed Stetzer

#9. Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?

Sunday Adelaja

#10. With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

Kelly Miller

#11. Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

Richard M. Nixon

#12. Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.

George Sterling

#13. Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group.

Marcus Garvey

#14. I do think that Japan will be one of the nations that have equality, and that, too, will serve as an example for other Asian nations.

George Takei

#15. If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Trevor Noah

#16. The Jew is upset because the nations of the world - the United Nations - lash him, brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate their desire to destroy him.

Meir Kahane

#17. Peace among the nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.

Edward Howard Griggs

#18. It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.

Carl Sagan

#19. It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.

Thomas Keating

#20. Another current catch-phrase is the complaint that the nations of the world are divided into 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' Observe that the 'haves' are those who have freedom, and that it is freedom that the 'have-nots' have not.

Ayn Rand

#21. The church I lead could have the least gifted people, the least talented people, the fewest leaders, and the least money, and this church under the power of the Holy Spirit could still shake the nations for his glory.

David Platt

#22. We owe Christ to the world
to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

David Platt

#23. God's great heart of love cannot be satisfied until he sees the nations that he loves bowing in worship before him

Sunday Adelaja

#24. Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth To-day encircle all the earth, And bind the nations with the love That Jesus brought from heaven above.

Maud Lindsay

#25. Without any doubt at all, teacher quality is the fundamental differentiator. Not just, incidentally, of education, but I would argue, probably the biggest single differentiator of success for the nations of the 21st Century.

David Puttnam

#26. No peace among the nations
without peace among the religions.
No peace among the religions
without dialogue between the religions
No dialogue between the religions
without investigation of the foundation of the religions.

Hans Kung

#27. I have a 100-mile round trip commute on some of the nations' busiest roads and enjoy every minute of it.

Henrik Fisker

#28. When you look at the 'New York Times,' you look at other elite media, what you largely get are pictures of very wealthy nations and the nations we've invaded.

Ethan Zuckerman

#29. In the ancient Near East, circumcision was practiced by most of the nations. Here God radically changes, for his own people, the meaning of this common cultural practice.

Craig G. Bartholomew

#30. God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

John Piper

#31. The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.

John Strachan

#32. I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the profounder the person, the greater the nation.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#33. Paul valued his life, but the doing of God's will was his highest priority.Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide feel the smae. Although, as Jesus foretold, they are 'objects of hatred by all the nations'.

Watch Tower Bible And Tract Society

#34. Of all the nations in the world, the people of the United States like freedom maybe a little better than anybody else.

Duncan Hunter

#35. Today we are a nation at peace with itself, united in our diversity, not only proclaiming but living out the contention that South Africa belongs to all who live in it. We take our place amongst the nations of the world, confident and proud in being an African country.

Nelson Mandela

#36. Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.

John Mott

#37. This is an age of science ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an empire, call for an understanding of the spirit and the technique of modern science. The nations that do not cultivate the sciences cannot hold their own.

Wickliffe Rose

#38. I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

Woodrow Wilson

#39. Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.

M. R. DeHaan

#40. In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast.

Isaac Newton

#41. The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.

Stanley Hauerwas

#42. Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.

Kelly Miller

#43. Among all the wise people of the nations and among all their kingdoms, there is no one like You. Jeremiah 10:7

Beth Moore

#44. The difference of language, dress, and manners ... severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

Edward Gibbon

#45. Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

Elliott Abrams

#46. We are not called to bring redemption to the nations single handedly

Sunday Adelaja

#47. Baptize the nations! far and nigh,The triumphs of the cross recordThe name of Jesus glorify,Till every people call Him Lord.

James Montgomery

#48. Thus the sum
Forever is replenished, and we live
As mortals by eternal give and take.
The nations wax, the nations wane away;
In a brief space the generations pass,
And like to runners hand the lamp of life
One unto other.

Lucretius

#49. To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him.

John Piper

#50. The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

John Adams

#51. I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

Macaulay Culkin

#52. We are not seeking ... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

Hassan Rouhani

#53. And the God who ruled absolutely in the life and fortunes of the most powerful monarch of that time still rules in the fortunes and destinies of governments today. No government or dictator is so powerful as to be beyond the sway of His sovereign rule over all the nations of the earth. GOD

Jerry Bridges

#54. Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

Sam Houston

#55. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

Arthur Jensen

#56. God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused us all, and now we have left the state. We have renounced all the things the world offers ... The gods of the nations are demons.

Justin Martyr

#57. The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#58. If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.

Henry David Thoreau

#59. Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

Cordell Hull

#60. I think it is a very natural tendency for the nations to increase their influence in the international space, as they pursue their international relations with different countries.

Narendra Modi

#61. Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it ... so that the confidence of the German people shall be put in the equity of their cause and not in the might of their armies.

David Lloyd George

#62. There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.

Ernest Bevin

#63. I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground. Amos 9:9

Beth Moore

#64. The kingdom to come includes not just worship but righteousness (ethics), communion (society), authority (politics), and "the glory and honor of the nations" (culture).

Russell D. Moore

#65. Do you want to save the world..??
than accept the nations.

Khalid Hussain

#66. One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future.

Shane Claiborne

#67. To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

Thomas Paine

#68. Some of this occurred when God defeated Assyria and delivered Jerusalem (Isa. 37). But the ultimate fulfillment is still future; all military material will be destroyed (9:5) because the nations will not learn war any more (2:4).

Warren W. Wiersbe

#69. One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!

Romain Rolland

#70. Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

Arthur Henderson

#71. May the strangers next door that you meet this morning become your brothers and sisters in the Lord this afternoon and go to the nations later this evening.

J.D. Payne

#72. God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth.

Pope Benedict XVI

#73. The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

Pope John XXIII

#74. The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.

Douglas MacArthur

#75. Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

Baha'u'llah

#76. We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.

Menachem Begin

#77. If a nation blames other nations for their problems, most likely the citizens of the nations will do the same thing.

Debasish Mridha

#78. Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#79. Full employment - very full employment; long, weary, back-breaking employment - is characteristic of precisely the nations that are most retarded industrially.

Henry Hazlitt

#80. The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand.

Meir Kahane

#81. If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nations mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nations needs.

Jan Smuts

#82. When you love the Lord, you long to glorify Him and see the nations fall at His feet in worship. When you love your neighbor as yourself, you share the gospel with him and seek to meet his needs in every way you can, which includes seeing him fall at Jesus' feet in thanksgiving for salvation.

David Sills

#83. The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

William Osler

#84. Great things seem complex and cause the nations to rush towards the minor things that seem easy to reach, hence, they perish. And again my memory echoes ... my people die for lack of knowledge.

Blaise Tshibwabwa

#85. Jesus did not send us to declare the gospel only where people are responsive or where our witness is welcome. He did not expect us to be on mission to disciple peoples only where there is no danger or risk involved. He was unequivocal in His mandate to disciple the nations (peoples) - all of them!

Ed Stetzer

#86. Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.

John Ashcroft

#87. The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity ... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.

Isaac Mayer Wise

#88. Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes.

Genghis Khan

#89. We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened ... what harm is there in this? ... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.

Baha'u'llah

#90. The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay ... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale

David Lloyd George

#91. The Almighty, if necessary, may have to shake the nations to humble them and cause them to listen to the servants of the living God. Whatever is needed will come to pass.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#92. All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall

Harry S. Truman

#93. Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres
and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.

Richard Salter Storrs

#94. There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.

Hans Kung

#95. God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises "before the nations." We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.

Timothy Keller

#96. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#97. All the nations that ever lived have left their footsteps in the sand. The traces fade with every tide, the echoes grow faint, the images are fractured, the human material is atomized and recycled. But if we know where to look, there is always a remnant, a remainder, an irreducible residue.

Norman Davies

#98. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press.

Albert Einstein

#99. [Christians] are commanded to warn the nations of the world that they must repent and turn to God while there is yet time.

Billy Graham

#100. It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely binjured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.

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