Quotes about Nations
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
Always touched with sympathy for human infirmities, we bear the burden of nations in our hearts.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten—a principle that applies to nations as well as individuals.
— Philip Yancey
Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
— Nehemiah 1:8
In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.
— Tertullian
His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
— Isaiah 30:28
But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.
— Isaiah 61:6
All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”
— Isaiah 43:9
The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.
— Charles Stanley
They will no longer be prey for the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not consume them. They will dwell securely, and no one will frighten them.
— Ezekiel 34:28
In that day Israel will join a three-party alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing upon the earth.
— Isaiah 19:24
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
— Genesis 15:21