Quotes about Nations
The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission. Her work is making disciples of all nations.
- Brother Andrew
And this presence of the Spirit will enlighten not only yellow skin people or white skin people but even black skin people. I believe in the last days the Spirit of God will be poured out in the nations of Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Because Jesus Christ is the Lord. Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Universe. Amen.
- Brother Yun
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
When we begin enacting the new world, the nations will follow. Nations will not lead us to peace; it is people who will lead the nation to peace as they begin to humanize the nations.
- Shane Claiborne
One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.
- Shane Claiborne
One thing other nations can learn from Hawaii, he says, is the willingness of races to work together toward common development, something he has found whites elsewhere too often unwilling to do. I
- Barack Obama
From hence, let fierce contending nations knowWhat dire effects from civil discord flow.
- Joseph Addison
The Lord said unto me, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
- Eusebius of Caesarea
God is looking for a generation that He can use as builders to bring about His intended purposes for cities and nations. This kind of transformation of society doesn't happen by us being on the outside. It happens from within.
- Bill Johnson
The anointing to heal and bring deliverance will be of no value in Heaven. These graces must be used here and now as part of the package of tools used to bring the nations to Jesus. After all, He is called "the desire of the nations."Everyone desires Jesus. They just don't know it. We must become like Him more fully so that the harvest becomes all that God desires and has provided for.
- Bill Johnson
Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
- Woodrow Wilson
Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
- George W. Bush